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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Gray, ME

February 25, 2006Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 25, 2006, 10:20 PM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 26, 2006, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 25, 2006, 10:20 PM EST (03:20 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 26, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 26, 2006, 10:00 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 326 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, Caribou, ME at 00:00Z on 2006-02-26Temperature 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, Caribou, ME at 00:00Z on 2006-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 3:36 PM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryGYXFranklin, Oxford, Somerset19 hr

Nearby

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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.