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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME

February 11, 20068 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Feb 11, 2006, 3:25 PM EST for 8 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 12, 2006, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2006, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 12, 2006, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 12, 2006, 9:00 PM EST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 16 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 2006-02-11Temperature 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 2006-02-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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 11, 3:25 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryGYXFranklin, Oxford, Somerset30 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2006Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2006Every winter storm 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.