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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2008, 4:05 PM EDT for Franklin County, Kennebec County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 22, 2008, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2008, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 Jun 22, 2:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 246 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE WEST TONIGHT AND MONDAY AND WILL STALL OVER THE REGION MONDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE OFFSHORE LATE TUESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND WILL MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY THURSDAY EVENING...STALLING SOUTH OF NEW ENGLAND ON FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION. A WARM FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST ON SATURDAY FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT ON SUNDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... SEVERE WEATHER GOING ON AT THE MOMENT SO THIS WILL BE SHORT AND SWEET. LINE OF CONVECTION CURRENT CROSSING THE FORECAST AREA WILL MOVE EAST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING BUT LINGERING INSTABILITY WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE FORECAST OVERNIGHT WITH POPS INCREASING TOWARD MORNING IN WESTERN ZONES AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. EXPECT ANOTHER NIGHT OF STRATUS IN COASTAL AREAS AND AREAS OF FOG ELSEWHERE. && .SHORT TERM /MONDAY/... COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION FROM THE WEST ON MONDAY. EXPECT ANOTHER DAY OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH A THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER NEW HAMPSHIRE. MARINE INFLUENCE SHOULD ONCE AGAIN INHIBIT CONVECTION ALONG THE MAINE COAST. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... DUE TO SEVERE WX ACTIVITY USED GMOS WITH GFS40 AND MAV MOS FOR THE SHORTER LONG TERM. && .AVIATION /19Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... SHORT TERM...VFR WITH AREAS OF IFR/LIFR IN COASTAL SECTIONS AND RIVER VALLEYS IN STRATUS AND FOG. VFR ON MONDAY WITH MVFR CIGS/VSBY IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/...DUE TO SEVERE WX TDA USED GMOS AND GFS40 FOR THE LONG TERM. && .MARINE... SHORT TERM...NO FLAGS. LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/...DUE TO SEVERE WX TDA USED GMOS...GFS40 AND WNAWAVE FOR THE LONG TERM. && .GYX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. MARINE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 9:48 AM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 948 AM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-231400- 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- 948 AM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED ALL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MOST OF SOUTHERN AND WESTERN MAINE...TO INCLUDE YORK, CUMBERLAND, ANDROSCOGGIN, SAGADAHOC, KENNEBEC, OXFORD, FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES...IN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR TODAY. OUR FORECAST CALLS FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS FOR ALL AREAS OF NORTHERN, CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHERN AND WESTERN MAINE EXCEPT ALONG THE COAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS OR BECOMES IMMINENT. ANZ150>154-231400- STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME OUT TO 25 NM-PENOBSCOT BAY- PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME OUT TO 25 NM-CASCO BAY- CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM- 948 AM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CASCO BAY...PENOBSCOT BAY...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT APPLICABLE.
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 66 min | |
| Jun 22, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Grafton, Merrimack | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 12:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Grafton | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Strafford | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.