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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2006, 6:33 PM EDT for Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 42 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
- Aug 2, 2006, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 427 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
- 993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 2, 6:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 515 AM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 MEZ007>009-013-014-022-027-028-NHZ001-002-030915- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR WALDO-KNOX- COASTAL WALDO-NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS- 515 AM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MAINE AND NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT IN ADDITION TO THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY. MEZ012-019>021-024>026-NHZ003>006-030915- SOUTHERN OXFORD-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC- COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-NORTHERN GRAFTON- NORTHERN CARROLL-SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL- 515 AM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MAINE AND NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY. MEZ018-023-NHZ007>010-013-014-030915- INTERIOR YORK-COASTAL YORK-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-STRAFFORD- INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 515 AM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MAINE... CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY. ANZ150-170-030915- STONINGTON ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM- WATERS FROM STONINGTON (DEER ISLE) ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA FROM 25 TO 40 NM- 515 AM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF AN AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON ME TO THE MERRIMACK RIVER MA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS TO THE COASTAL WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 2, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 58 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 60 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 96 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Lincoln, Sagadahoc | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 65 min | |
| Aug 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 54 min | |
| Aug 2, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Carroll | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham, Strafford | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.