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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this freeze warning at Sep 16, 2011, 3:06 AM EDT for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Carroll County, Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Sep 16, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Sep 16, 2011, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 16, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 315 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
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Sep 16, 1:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 1:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 3:06 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:33 AM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 9 hr | |
| Sep 16, 7:23 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 4 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Maine, 2011Freeze Warnings in New Hampshire, 2011Every freeze warning in 2011
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.