Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 2:20 PM EDT for Franklin County, Maine. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2003, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
762 WUUS51 KGYX 271820 SVRGYX MEC007-271845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 220 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY MAINE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MAINE * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 214 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF RUMFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. DAMAGING WINDS OR HAIL ARE LIKELY. REPORT WIND DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN GRAY MAINE. LAT...LON 4483 7071 4472 7050 4489 7024 4505 7046 $$ SJC
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 Jun 27, 9:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 9:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 945 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THIS WILL BE THE LAST OF THE THRIPLE H DAYS. PREV FCST ON TRACK SO NO UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED. ATMS UNSTABLE WITH DEWPTS IN THE LOWER 70S. AS PREV FCSTR MENTIONED LOOKS LIKE MORE OF THE WET MICRO BURST TYPE STORMS AS WE ARE IN A VERY LOW SHEARING ENVIRONMENT HOWEVER ALL OTHER CRITERIA APPEAR TO BE AVBL AFTER GOING THRU THE SVR WX CHECK LIST. FRONT MOVES THRU ARND 00Z THEN MUCH LESS HUMID AIR WITH DEWPTS ABT 20 DEGREES LOWER SAT AND WARM NOT HOT. INCREASING HUMIDITY ON SUN AHD OF THE NEXT SYS WHICH WILL GO THRU MON. .GYX...NONE. TFH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:50 AM EDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before
MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-270945- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 350 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND SOUTHERN MAINE AND NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK HAS PLACED NORTHERN... CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...SPARKING SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND PERHAPS SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING IF THUNDERSTORMS BECOME SEVERE. HAYES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:08 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
MEZ007-008-012-NHZ006-008>010-013-271915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 208 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE. AT 200 PM TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR. THE STRONGEST LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE...EXTENDING FROM THE EASTERN TIP OF BELKNAP COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO WESTERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. THE OTHER LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM WEST CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD TO WEST CENTRAL OXFORD COUNTY. WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND HEAVY RAIN. WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 23 min |
| Jun 27, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 60 min | |
| Jun 27, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.