Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT for Franklin County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 8, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2001, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kingfield, ME | |
| Aug 8, 8:38 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Embden, 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 nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 738 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 8, 3:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 320 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2001 RECORD HIGH POSSIBLE AT PWM /94/ AND CON /97/ THURS. TEMPS AT 85H A BIT WARMER TMRW THAN ON TUE. NOT AS HOT ON FRI. COOLER WEEKEND. TONIGHT AN MCS NOW MOVING OVER LAKE HURON WILL LIKELY MOVE THRU CENTRAL AND NRN ZONES AFTER MIDNIGHT. THIS SYSTEM SHOWS UP WELL ON MODELS. THIS ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE VERY WARM AIR. ACTIVITY WILL PROB WEAKEN BUT HAVE GONE WITH A 50 POP IN MTNS AND 30 POP IN CENTRAL AND E ZONES. THURS HOT AND HUMID WITH 40 POP MTNS AND 30 POP CENTRAL AND E ZNS CLOSER TO BOUNDARY. NO POP SW ZONES...HOWEVER BUFKIT DATA SHOWING IT TO BE QUITE UNSTABLE BUT WITH WARM AIR AT MID LEVELS ONLY ISOLATED TSRA ACTIVITY EXPC SIMILAR TO YEST. THURS NIGHT VERY WARM AND MUGGY NIGHT WITH LOWS IN SRN ZONES STAYING ABV 70. FRI TRANSITION DAY AS FRONT MOVES THRU LATE IN DAY. MAY BE TOO LOW WITH TEMPS FOR FRI. THINKING IS MORE CLDS FOR FRI HOLDING TEMPS DOWN. WEEKEND LOOKS GOOD WITH FRONT DRAPED ACROSS SRN NEW ENGLAND AND STATIONARY. WILL HAVE TO SEE EXACTLY WHERE FRONT STALLS COULD BE FLY IN THE OINTMENT FOR COMPLETELY SUNNY WEEKEND. MARINE...SEA BREEZE BLEW IN TDY WITH WINDS ALONG CST FROM E AND SE. WINDS SHOULD VEER TO SW LATER TNT AND REMAIN SW THRU FRI. .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. TFH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset | 45 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.