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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Gray, ME

October 1, 201011 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Oct 1, 2010, 12:25 AM EDT for 11 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 1, 2010, 12:25 AM EDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired
Oct 1, 2010, 1:25 PM EDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 266 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, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2010-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 232 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2010-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 253 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 1, 9:29 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXOxford10 hr
Oct 1, 10:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXYork56 min
Oct 1, 10:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX93 min
Oct 1, 10:42 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, York33 min
Oct 1, 11:53 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXAndroscoggin, Kennebec37 min
Oct 1, 3:47 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGYX23 hr
Oct 1, 9:00 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan6 hr
Oct 1, 9:29 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXCoos66 hr
Oct 1, 9:29 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXGrafton33 hr
Oct 1, 9:29 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXGrafton, Sullivan39 hr
Oct 1, 2:59 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan8 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Maine, 2010Wind Advisories in New Hampshire, 2010Every wind advisory in 2010

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.