Alert archive / New Hampshire / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Dec 30, 2008, 1:38 AM EST for 5 counties in New Hampshire; York County, Maine. It took effect at Dec 30, 2008, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 2008, 1:38 AM EST (06:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2008, 5:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2008, 3:06 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KGYX 300638 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 138 AM EST TUE DEC 30 2008 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY... STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST MAINE. MEZ018-023-NHZ007>010-013-014-301630- /O.NEW.KGYX.WI.Y.0013.081230T1000Z-081230T2100Z/ INTERIOR YORK-COASTAL YORK-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-STRAFFORD- INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH... CLAREMONT...NEWPORT...CONCORD...LACONIA...TILTON-NORTHFIELD... MEREDITH...ROCHESTER...DOVER...DURHAM...DERRY...LONDONDERRY... EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...HAMPTON 138 AM EST TUE DEC 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM EARLY THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM EARLY THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND YORK COUNTY MAINE. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN DURING THE PRE-DAWN HOURS...AND WILL BE STRONGEST FROM AFTER SUNRISE INTO EARLY AFTERNOON...AND SHOULD DIMINISH BEFORE SUNSET. EXPECT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 50 MPH AT TIMES OVER THE ADVISORY AREA. ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS OF AROUND 50 MPH. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ MC
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KGYX 301440 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 940 AM EST TUE DEC 30 2008 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY... .LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING OVER THE GULF OF MAINE THIS MORNING WILL DEEPEN AND INTO THE MARITIMES THIS AFTERNOON. BEHIND THE DEPARTING LOW...STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST MAINE. MEZ018-023-NHZ007>010-013-014-302100- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-081230T2100Z/ INTERIOR YORK-COASTAL YORK-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-STRAFFORD- INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH... CLAREMONT...NEWPORT...CONCORD...LACONIA...TILTON-NORTHFIELD... MEREDITH...ROCHESTER...DOVER...DURHAM...DERRY...LONDONDERRY... EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...HAMPTON 940 AM EST TUE DEC 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND YORK COUNTY MAINE. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN THROUGH THE LATE MORNING HOURS...AND WILL BE STRONGEST THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. EXPECT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 45 MPH AT TIMES OVER THE ADVISORY AREA. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS TOWARD THE AREA FROM THE OHIO VALLEY. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$
000 WWUS71 KGYX 302006 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 306 PM EST TUE DEC 30 2008 MEZ018-023-NHZ007>010-013-014-302115- /O.CAN.KGYX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-081230T2100Z/ INTERIOR YORK-COASTAL YORK-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-STRAFFORD- INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH... CLAREMONT...NEWPORT...CONCORD...LACONIA...TILTON-NORTHFIELD... MEREDITH...ROCHESTER...DOVER...DURHAM...DERRY...LONDONDERRY... EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...HAMPTON 306 PM EST TUE DEC 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL GUST TO 35 MPH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...SINCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH THROUGH THIS EVENING...THE WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 3:11 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Grafton, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford and 1 more | 24 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.