Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Gray, ME

May 26, 1998Washington County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 2:06 PM EDT for Washington County, Maine. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1998, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1998, 2:55 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 1998-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 1998-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXWashington55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.