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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Mar 27, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Mar 28, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 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
- Mar 27, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2008, 12:47 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 27, 11:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 11:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 10:38 AM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | York | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford and 3 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2008Every winter storm 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.