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Coastal Flood Statement 11, NWS Gray, ME

December 21, 20126 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this coastal flood statement at Dec 21, 2012, 4:50 PM EST for 6 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 21, 2012, 4:50 PM EST (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Dec 21, 2012, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Cumberland County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 338 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 805 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Dec 21, 3:23 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 21, 3:23 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 21, 12:40 PM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1240 PM EST FRI DEC 21 2012

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

1147 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST ISLE OF SHOALS          42.97N  70.62W
12/21/2012  M70 MPH          ANZ154             NH   C-MAN STATION

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1200320

NB

Local storm report, Dec 21, 12:46 PM EST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1246 PM EST FRI DEC 21 2012

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

1155 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG LEMPSTER                43.24N  72.21W
12/21/2012                   SULLIVAN           NH   AMATEUR RADIO

            TREE AND WIRES DOWN ON UNITY SPRINGS ROAD

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1200321

KIMBLE

Local storm report, Dec 21, 12:49 PM EST, 4 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1249 PM EST FRI DEC 21 2012

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

1142 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST MATINICUS ROCK          43.77N  68.86W
12/21/2012  M58 MPH          ANZ150             ME   C-MAN STATION

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1200322

NB

Local storm report, Dec 21, 2:11 PM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
211 PM EST FRI DEC 21 2012

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

0154 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST PORTSMOUTH INTL AIRPORT 43.09N  70.82W
12/21/2012  M58 MPH          ROCKINGHAM         NH   ASOS

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1200323

KIMBLE

Local storm report, Dec 21, 2:14 PM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
214 PM EST FRI DEC 21 2012

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

0212 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG YORK                    43.14N  70.65W
12/21/2012                   YORK               ME   PUBLIC

            LARGE TREE DOWN ON PWR LINES ON CAPE NEDDICK ST.

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1200324

TFH

Local storm report, Dec 21, 3:38 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
338 PM EST FRI DEC 21 2012

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

0300 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST MATINICUS ROCK          43.77N  68.86W
12/21/2012  M72 MPH          ANZ150             ME   C-MAN STATION

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1200325

KIMBLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 21, 6:39 PM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		2 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Maine, 2012 Coastal Flood Statements in New Hampshire, 2012 Every coastal flood statement in 2012

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.