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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Gray, ME

December 15, 20058 counties in Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Dec 15, 2005, 3:54 PM EST for 8 counties in Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Dec 16, 2005, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 15, 2005, 3:54 PM EST (20:54 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 16, 2005, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 16, 2005, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 277 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 15, 3:30 PM EST, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 3:30 PM EST, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 4:17 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more	11 days
Dec 15, 3:54 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	27 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2005 Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2005 Every winter storm 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.