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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME

August 1, 2011Kennebec County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2011, 10:10 PM EDT for Kennebec County, Maine. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 2011, 10:10 PM EDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2011, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

County Kennebec County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2011-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2296 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2011-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 1, 9:54 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 9:54 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 1, 6:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
608 PM EDT MON AUG 01 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0538 PM     HAIL             WELD                    44.70N  70.42W
08/01/2011  E0.70 INCH       FRANKLIN           ME   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1100319

KIMBLE
Local storm report, Aug 1, 6:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
613 PM EDT MON AUG 01 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0555 PM     HAIL             1 E CARTHAGE            44.62N  70.45W
08/01/2011  E1.00 INCH       FRANKLIN           ME   PUBLIC

            TIME ESTIMATED

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1100320

KIMBLE
Local storm report, Aug 1, 8:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
814 PM EDT MON AUG 01 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0722 PM     HAIL             MOUNT WASHINGTON        44.27N  71.30W
08/01/2011  M1.00 INCH       COOS               NH   CO-OP OBSERVER

            MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY OBSERVATION. HAIL LASTED
            FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES.

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1100321

KIMBLE
Local storm report, Aug 1, 8:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 10:10 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 8:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXSomerset2 hr
Aug 1, 10:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXLincoln30 min
Aug 1, 10:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXKennebec33 min
Aug 1, 11:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXWaldo46 min
Aug 2, 9:08 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXFranklin52 min
Aug 2, 10:11 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXFranklin34 min
Aug 2, 10:23 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXFranklin37 min
Aug 2, 10:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXFranklin, Kennebec, Somerset34 min
Aug 2, 11:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXKennebec32 min
Aug 2, 11:37 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXAndroscoggin23 min
Aug 2, 11:44 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXKennebec31 min
Aug 2, 12:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Kennebec, Sagadahoc41 min
Aug 2, 12:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXWaldo26 min
Aug 2, 12:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCumberland31 min
Aug 2, 12:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCumberland, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc38 min
Aug 2, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSomerset, Waldo40 min
Aug 2, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCumberland, Lincoln, Sagadahoc35 min
Aug 2, 1:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCumberland24 min
Aug 2, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXLincoln32 min
Aug 2, 1:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXWaldo24 min
Aug 2, 2:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXSomerset32 min
Aug 2, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXFranklin26 min
Aug 2, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXYork36 min
Aug 2, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX67 min
Aug 2, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXAndroscoggin36 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Sagadahoc60 min
Aug 2, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXYork58 min
Aug 2, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXKennebec32 min
Aug 2, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXWaldo30 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX39 min
Aug 2, 6:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXAndroscoggin51 min
Aug 2, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX33 min
Aug 2, 9:52 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCoos23 min
Aug 2, 9:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos35 min
Aug 2, 10:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCoos32 min
Aug 2, 10:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXGrafton36 min
Aug 2, 11:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXGrafton26 min
Aug 2, 12:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCarroll29 min

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Special Weather Statements in Maine, 2011Every special weather statement 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.