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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2006, 2:44 PM EDT for Kennebec County, Maine. It was in force for 50 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 11, 2006, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2006, 3:34 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kennebec County, ME
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 Jul 11, 9:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 9:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 949 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006 .SHORT TERM /REST OF TODAY/...WILL ISSUE AN UPDATE TO TWEAK FCST A BIT. NO MAJOR CHGS ANTICIPATED. SHORTWAVE MVG THROUGH SRN NH AND SW MAINE CURRENTLY. THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A VIGOROUS BUT NON SEVERE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THIS LINE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE E AND SHOULD BE EAST OF THE FA BY EARLY AFTN. FROM THE REPORTS WE HAVE GOTTEN RAINFALL RANGES FROM 1/2 TO 1 INCH IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 243 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006/ SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT/... AN IMPRESSIVE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WITH AN AREA OF CONVECTION ALREADY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE IS MOVING INTO EASTERN NEW YORK STATE AT THIS TIME. BY LATE THIS MORNING DIURNAL HEATING WILL FURTHER ENHANCE THE AMOUNT AND INTENSITY OF CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE. SOME STRONG CONVECTION WITH TROPICAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE MENTIONED IN ALL ZONES TODAY AS THIS FEATURE SLOWLY DRIFTS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AND FINALLY MOVES EAST OF THE AREA BY LATER TONIGHT. GFS SOLUTION SEEMS REASONABLE. HIGH DEWPOINTS WILL ALSO POOL INTO THE AREA TODAY WITH SOME POSSIBLY REACHING 70F SO HAZY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO BE MENTIONED. CLOUD COVER TODAY WILL LIMIT MAX TEMPS INTO THE LOWER TO MID 80S OVER MOST SPOTS EXCEPT COOLER ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST. TEMPS TONIGHT WILL STAY MILD AS NO COOL OR DRIER AIR MASS IN SIGHT. MAY BE ISSUING A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR POTENTIAL OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY BEGIN DEVELOPING BY LATE THIS MORNING AND THROUGH THE AFTERNOON OVER THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... CLOUDS INCREASE WEDNESDAY AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES EAST AND CUTS ACROSS SOUTHERN AREAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY IN THOSE AREAS AND JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THE MOUNTAINS. THAT LOW EJECTS OUT TO SEA ON THURSDAY AND HIGH PRESSURE TAKES OVER THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE AIR WILL REMAIN STICKY OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH DAYTIME TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S AND DEWPOINTS MAINLY IN THE 60S. ALSO LOOK FOR AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY AS MINOR IMPULSES MOVE THROUGH. A WEAK FRONT DROPS DOWN FROM CANADA ON MONDAY AND WILL TRY TO BRING IN MORE ORGANIZED SHOWERS. AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS IN HAZE BUT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCASIONALLY LOWER CONDITIONS BRIEFLY TO MVFR CONDITIONS INTO TONIGHT. MARINE... A LIGHT SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. SEAS TO REMAIN IN THE 2-4 FT RANGE THROUGH TONIGHT. && .GYX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. MARINE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 5:57 AM EDT, 8 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 557 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006 ANZ150-MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-121000- 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- 557 AM EDT TUE JUL 11 2006 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 A PERSISTENT AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HELD TOGETHER AS THEY MOVED THROUGH NEW YORK STATE OVERNIGHT...AND VERMONT AROUND DAYBREAK. THESE WILL BE MOVING THROUGH OUR AREA TODAY. SOME COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS WILL BRING RAIN TO THOSE AREAS LATE WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL ALSO BE SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REST OF THE REGION. THE REST OF THE WEEK LOOKS HAZY...WARM AND HUMID WITH AREAS OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS AND PATCHY NIGHTTIME FOG. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... PLEASE BE READY TO ASSIST IN SOLICITING THUNDERSTORM RELATED DAMAGE REPORTS TODAY.
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 65 min | |
| Jul 11, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 94 min | |
| Jul 11, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jul 11, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 97 min | |
| Jul 11, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 95 min | |
| Jul 11, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 40 min |
| Jul 11, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 12:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 39 min |
| Jul 11, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 64 min |
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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.