Alert archive / Maine / Freeze Warnings in 2011
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this freeze warning at Oct 5, 2011, 3:14 AM EDT for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Carroll County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 6, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Oct 5, 2011, 3:14 AM EDT (07:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 6, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2011, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Grafton County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 Oct 5, 2:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 2:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 4, 9:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 945 PM EDT TUE OCT 4 2011 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-060145- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR YORK- INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC-INTERIOR WALDO- COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 945 PM EDT TUE OCT 4 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. BY TOMORROW NIGHT... FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF INTERIOR NEW ENGLAND. AS COLD HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT... FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND FROST WILL BE EVEN MORE WIDESPREAD... WITH FROST POSSIBLE ALL THE WAY TO THE COAST BY FRIDAY MORNING. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ150>154-060145- STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME OUT TO 25 NM-PENOBSCOT BAY- PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME OUT TO 25 NM-CASCO BAY- CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM- 945 PM EDT TUE OCT 4 2011 ...GALE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CASCO BAY...PENOBSCOT BAY...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. GALE WATCH. AS LOW PRESSURE DEPARTS THE GULF OF MAINE TOMORROW...WINDS MAY GUST TO GALE FORCE. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 1:57 AM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 23 hr | |
| Oct 5, 3:14 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Waldo, York | 28 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.