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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Gray, ME

December 1, 200611 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Dec 1, 2006, 3:42 PM EST for 11 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Dec 2, 2006, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 1, 2006, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 2, 2006, 4:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 2, 2006, 2:26 PM EST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc 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, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 31 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2006-12-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2006-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Dec 1, 3:35 PM EST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 3:35 PM EST, 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
335 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

.SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
VERY ACTIVE WEATHER CONTINUES IN THE SHORT TERM. SFC COLD FRONT
CONTINUES TO PUSH SLOWLY SOUTHWESTWARD THIS AFTERNOON INTO
SOUTHERN NH WITH TEMPS CONTINUING TO FALL ACROSS MOST OF FORECAST
AREA. HAVE GOTTEN SOME REPORTS OF MIXED PRECIP IN MTNS THIS
AFTERNOON. TO THE WEST...LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST WITH
VERY ACTIVE WEATHER.

AS LOW AND ASSOCIATED FRONT MOVE RAPIDLY EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...HEAVY SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
AREA. THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS MOST OF AREA
AS COLD AIR SEEMS TO BE FAIRLY WELL ENTRENCHED. THE EXCEPTION IS
ACROSS SOUTHERN NH AND EXTREME SW MAINE WHERE TODAYS FRONT MAY
MOVE BACK NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT AS LOW MOVES EAST.

THE LOW INTENSIFIES TONIGHT AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL FOLLOW
FRONTAL PASSAGE. STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL MIX DOWNWARD FOLLOWING
PASSAGE OF LOW AND EXPECT GUSTY WIND WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE
DAY SATURDAY.

&&

.LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/...
STRONG GRADIENT AND COLD AIR ADVECTION WITH ALIGNED LOW LEVEL WIND
REGIEME WILL EASE DURING THE MID/LATE EVENING HOURS SAT. NEXT
WEATHER PROBLEM IS THE STRENGTH AND PROXIMITY OF SFC LOW THAT
FORMS OFF THE NORTHERN FLORIDA COASTLINE LATE SAT NIGHT BEFORE
MOVING TO THE NE. MODELS A TAD MORE AMPLIFIED WITH THE 12Z
SUITE...BRINGING -SN TO ALL PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA MONDAY.
INVERTED TROUGH AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FIELD ALONG WITH STEEPENING
LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES MAY ENHANCE PRECIPITATION NEAR THE COAST -
BUT THIS IS WAY TOO EARLY TO CONFIRM.

SURFACE LOW GRADUALLY PULLS E WELL OFF THE COASTLINE MON NIGHT.
THEREAFTER...A SIGNIFICANT MID LEVEL TROUGH REMAINS IN THE E
THROUGH MUCH OF THE WORKWEEK. SO...IF ANY OF THE SHORT WAVES
DIGGING INTO THE TROUGH PHASES...MORE SN POSSIBLE FOR THE FORECAST
AREA.

WARM AIR MAY TAKE A SHOT BACK AT THE NE BY NEXT WEEKEND AS RIDGE
BUILDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
&&

.AVIATION...IFR CONDITIONS TONIGHT WITH LOW CLOUDS AND
FOG...FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORMS. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO VFR BY MORNING EXCEPT
IN THE MOUNTAINS CLOUDS AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL PERSIST. &&

.MARINE...GALES EXPECTED THROUGH SAT EVENING.
&&

.GYX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ME...WIND ADVISORY FROM 3 AM TO 7 PM EST SATURDAY FOR MEZ007>009-
     012>014-018>028.

NH...WIND ADVISORY FROM 3 AM TO 7 PM EST SATURDAY FOR NHZ001>010-
     013-014.

MARINE...GALE WARNING UNTIL 7 PM EST SATURDAY FOR ANZ150.
&&

JC/JJ
Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 1, 2:58 PM EST, 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
258 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

ANZ150-MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-022000-
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-
258 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
SOUTHWEST MAINE LATE THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS THROUGH LATE THIS
EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMSPHIRE AND PERHAPS EXTREME
SOUTHWEST MAINE.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF
NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE THROUGHT LATE THIS
EVENING. THERE MAY BE SHARP RISES ON SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS.

MIXED PRECIPITATION MAY FALL ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
MOUNTAINS...FOOTHILLS AND CENTRAL INTERIOR TONIGHT. TRAVEL MAY
BECOME DIFFICULT.

A GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT ALONG THE COAST.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED.

JC

In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Dec 1, 3:21 PM EST, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
321 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-020430-
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-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANDOVER...BYRON...MIDDLE DAM...
ROXBURY...SOUTH ARM...UPTON...WILSONS MILLS...AVON...
CARRABASSETT VALLEY...COBURN GORE...DALLAS...DAVIS...EUSTIS...
KINGFIELD...BINGHAM...RUMFORD...NORWAY...SOUTH PARIS...MEXICO...
FRYEBURG...OXFORD...FARMINGTON...WILTON...SKOWHEGAN...
PITTSFIELD...MADISON...FAIRFIELD...NORTH WINDHAM...GORHAM...
BRIDGTON...LEWISTON...AUBURN...AUGUSTA...WATERVILLE...WINSLOW...
GARDINER...UNITY...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH...
PORTLAND...SOUTH PORTLAND...WESTBROOK...BATH...TOPSHAM...
WALDOBORO...BOOTHBAY HARBOR...WISCASSET...ROCKLAND...CAMDEN...
THOMASTON...BELFAST...LITTLETON...NORTH CONWAY...CONWAY...
LEBANON...HANOVER...PLYMOUTH...WOLFEBORO...CLAREMONT...NEWPORT...
CONCORD...LACONIA...TILTON-NORTHFIELD...MEREDITH...ROCHESTER...
DOVER...DURHAM...DERRY...LONDONDERRY...EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...
HAMPTON
321 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST MAINE THROUGH LATE THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS
DETERMINED THAT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MAINE THROUGH LATE
THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT WITHIN ISOLATED
STORMS.

A STATIONARY FRONT WILL MOVE NORTH AS A WARM FRONT THIS EVENING
AND WILL BE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHWEST
MAINE THIS EVENING. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL FOLLOW ALONG
THIS FRONT...CROSSING THE REGION THIS EVENING. AREAS ALONG AND
SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL HAVE THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS. THIS
AREA IS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MAINE.

JC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 1, 4:36 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryGYXFranklin, Oxford, Somerset11 hr
Dec 1, 6:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSullivan38 min

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Maine, 2006Wind Advisories in New Hampshire, 2006Every wind 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.