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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2011, 6:08 PM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2011, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 19, 5:18 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 5:18 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 329 PM EDT FRI AUG 19 2011 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-201000- 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- 329 PM EDT FRI AUG 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ150>154-201000- 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- 329 PM EDT FRI AUG 19 2011 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 1:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Oxford | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | York | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | York | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | 43 min | |
| Aug 19, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec, Oxford | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Kennebec, Somerset | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Carroll | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 39 min |
| Aug 19, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Strafford | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Merrimack | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 5:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Belknap | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Caledonia | 50 min |
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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.