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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 2:26 PM EDT for York County, Maine. It was in force for 49 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 16, 2002, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County York County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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 16, 2:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Arundel, ME | |
| Aug 16, 2:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Arundel, 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 1212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 16, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 930 AM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 UPDATED DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED INTO THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND SHOULD BE MOSTLY EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY NOONTIME. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CLOUDS THINNING BEHIND THE SHOWERS OVER WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT. COULD SEE ENOUGH HEATING TO REDEVELOP SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION...BUT PROBABLY NOT UNTIL LATE IN THE DAY AS REFLECTED IN MAV MOS 6 HOUR POPS. PREVIOUS FORECAST ON TRACK. WILL ISSUE AN UPDATED MAINLY TO INTRODUCE SOME LATE DAY TIMING ON THE NEXT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND HIGHLIGHT HUMID CONDITIONS FOR THIS AFTERNOON WITH DEW POINTS IN THE LOWER 70S. PWMWRKZFP AVAILABLE FOR COORDINATION. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FORECAST UPDATE. NO FLAGS. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... ANOTHER WARM AND MUGGY NGT WTH DEWPTS IN THE 60S...BUT LOWR 70S UPSTRM. A FEW LGT SHWRS ARND SRN ME MOVG NE AND ANOTHR BATCH WTH A S/W IN NYSTATE. BEST POPS THIS AM WTH THE S/W BUT UNSTABLE ENUF TO KEEP A CHC GOING ALL DAY. A CDFNT WKNS TO A TROF AS IT MOVES THRU THE FA ON SAT BUT REMAINING WARM AND LTL IN THE WAY OF PCPN. NEXT DECENT THREAT OF SHWRS SUN AS A STACKED LOW IN JAMES BAY PUSHES A WARM FNT THRU ERY IN THE DAY...FOLLOWED BY A CDFNT SYSTM SUN NGT. FCSTID = 7 .GYX... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. WHEELER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 64 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 33 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.