Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 490
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT for 10 counties in Maine. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Hancock County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | York | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.