Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Gray, ME

June 8, 1999Lincoln County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1999, 2:59 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Maine. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1999, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1999, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 3:02 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Jefferson, ME

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 8, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

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
Jun 8, 1:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSomerset62 min
Jun 8, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXKennebec, Waldo61 min
Jun 8, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXKnox61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

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