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Coastal Flood Statement 6, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this coastal flood statement at Dec 13, 2012, 3:17 AM EST for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Dec 14, 2012, 8:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2012, 3:17 AM EST (08:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 14, 2012, 8:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2012, 3:53 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 3:11 AM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 3:11 AM EST, 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 311 AM EST THU DEC 13 2012 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN OVER THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK ACROSS SOUTHERN QUEBEC ON FRIDAY...AND DRAG A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE REGION. HIGH PRESSURE FOLLOWS FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. WEAKENING LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST ON SUNDAY...PROVIDING A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH SOME SNOW PROBABLE INLAND...AND RAIN OR SNOW ON THE COAST. && .NEAR TERM /TODAY/... HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE REGION TODAY MEANS ANOTHER QUIET WEATHER DAY. SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED... WITH HIGHS CRACKING 40 IN SOUTHERN AREAS. && .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT AND FRIDAY/... LOW PRESSURE TRACKS EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SYSTEM PASSES CLOSE ENOUGH TO PROVIDE A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL BE EVEN WARMER ON FRIDAY WITH MOST AREAS REACHING THE 40S BEFORE THE COLD FRONT MOVES IN. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS WAVE TO THE NORTH TRACKS AWAY FROM THE FORECAST AREA FRIDAY NIGHT...WILL LIKELY SEE SOME LINGERING UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWERS FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT THESE WILL BE WINDING DOWN TOWARD SATURDAY MORNING AS DRY AIR MOVES IN. SATURDAY LOOKS TO BE GENERALLY SUNNY BUT SEASONABLY COLD WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S AND 30S. SATURDAY NIGHT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL REMAIN DRY...BUT WILL SEE CLOUDS OVERSPREADING THE FORECAST AREA IN ADVANCE OF LOW PRESSURE NEAR THE GREAT LAKES. A MORE ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN LOOKS TO BE IN STORE BEGINNING LATE THIS WEEKEND INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...AS A LARGE SCALE 500MB TROUGH DEVELOPS ACROSS THE CONUS...DEEPENS...AND SLOWS...ALLOWING WAVES TO EJECT OUT IF ITS BASE AND TRACK NORTHEAST FROM THE GULF COAST TOWARD NEW ENGLAND. 00Z MODEL RUNS ALL AGREE ON SOME SORT OF COASTAL LOW DEVELOPING EARLY TO MID WEEK...BUT NOT ON TRACK AND TIMING...AS THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE RESOLVING THE INDIVIDUAL WAVES TRACKING OUT OF THE TROUGH BASE / THIS MAY BE DUE TO CONVECTIVE SCALING ISSUES IN THE GULF COAST STATES /. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT CONFIDENCE IN FORECAST BEYOND SUNDAY REMAINS LOW. HOWEVER...IT DOES LOOK COLD ENOUGH DURING THIS PERIOD THAT ANY PRECIP INLAND SHOULD BE SNOW...WITH RAIN OR SNOW POSSIBLE ON THE COASTAL PLAIN. && .AVIATION /08Z THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... SHORT TERM...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AREAWIDE AS HIGH PRESSURE STAYS IN CONTROL. MAY SEE SOME MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS IN SNOW SHOWERS AT WHITEFIELD BY FRIDAY EVENING. LONG TERM...MAINLY MVFR THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...THEN PERIODS OF IFR IN SNOW SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. && .MARINE... SHORT TERM...QUIET CONDITIONS OVER THE WATERS WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE AREA. LONG TERM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY... MAINLY FOR NORTHWEST WINDS...AND AGAIN ON MONDAY IN EASTERLY FLOW. && .GYX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...CEMPA NEAR TERM...KIMBLE SHORT TERM...KIMBLE LONG TERM...CEMPA AVIATION...CEMPA/KIMBLE MARINE...CEMPA/KIMBLE
Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 12, 2:42 PM EST, 12 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 3:53 AM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 9 hr |
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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.