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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2007, 2:10 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
- Aug 4, 2007, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2007, 3:00 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 radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 4, 9:37 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 9:37 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 9:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 64 min | |
| Aug 3, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln, Sagadahoc | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 61 min | |
| Aug 3, 10:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 34 min | |
| Aug 3, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 67 min | |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Sagadahoc | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 10:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 31 min | |
| Aug 3, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 62 min | |
| Aug 3, 11:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Oxford | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 60 min | |
| Aug 4, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sagadahoc | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 11:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Coos | 3 hr |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.