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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2008, 2:15 PM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine. It was in force for 45 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 24, 2008, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 Jun 24, 9:03 AM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:03 AM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 321 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 2008 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-250730- 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- 321 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. ANZ150>154-250730- 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- 321 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:20 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 37 min | |
| Jun 24, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 23 min |
| Jun 24, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 49 min | |
| Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 22 min |
| Jun 24, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Waldo | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 23 min |
| Jun 24, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 28 min |
| Jun 24, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Waldo | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 67 min | |
| Jun 24, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham, Strafford | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 27 min |
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.