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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this frost advisory at Aug 25, 2006, 3:55 PM EDT for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Aug 25, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2006, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 25, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2006, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
Nearby
Frost Advisories in Maine, 2006Frost Advisories in New Hampshire, 2006Every frost advisory in 2006
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.