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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this high wind watch at Oct 24, 2005, 4:21 PM EDT for 9 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 25, 2005, 9:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2005, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 25, 2005, 9:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 24, 3:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 3:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 24, 4:55 AM EDT, 11 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 455 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ANZ150-MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-250900- STONINGTON ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM-NORTHERN OXFORD- NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR YORK- INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC-INTERIOR WALDO- COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX- COASTAL WALDO-NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON- NORTHERN CARROLL-SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN- MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM- COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 512 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MAINE... CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE...SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON ME TO THE MERRIMACK RIVER MA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY LOW PRESSURE...THE REMNANTS OF WILMA...WILL AFFECT THE REGION STARTING LATE TONIGHT AND LAST INTO A PORTION OF WEDNESDAY. STRONG WINDS...POSSIBLE IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH...ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. OVER THE COASTAL WATERS STORM FORCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY AND INTO TUESDAY NIGHT WITH WINDS OF 40 TO 50 KNOTS WITH SOME GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. SOME COASTAL FLOODING AND BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE. IN ADDITION...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN AS WELL. FINALLY...SNOW IS POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN LATE TUESDAY AND INTO A PORTION OF WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FOR THE STORM LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 3:52 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.