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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Gray, ME

July 14, 2005York County, Maine; Carroll County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2005, 2:58 PM EDT for York County, Maine; Carroll County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2005, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties York County, ME, Carroll County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 258 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 278 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXYork32 min
Jul 14, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSomerset34 min
Jul 14, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham, Strafford24 min
Jul 14, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham, Strafford26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.