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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Gray, ME

January 2, 2010York County, Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Jan 2, 2010, 3:34 AM EST for York County, Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Jan 2, 2010, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 2, 2010, 3:34 AM EST (08:34 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 2, 2010, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 3, 2010, 10:16 AM EST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties 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), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2010-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2010-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 3:27 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 4 more31 hr
Jan 2, 3:27 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryGYXYork31 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.