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Freezing Rain Advisory 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 10, 2012, 5:32 PM EST for 6 counties in Maine. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2012, 5:32 PM EST (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 11, 2012, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 334 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
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Dec 9, 6:53 PM EST, 22 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 6:53 PM EST, 22 hours 39 minutes before
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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.