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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2012, 6:39 PM EDT for Waldo County, Maine. It was in force for 51 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
- Jul 2, 2012, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
County Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jul 2, 6:04 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:04 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 330 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-031930- 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- 330 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACCOMPANIED BY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ150>154-031930- 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- 330 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012 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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
332 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012
MEZ026-027-022015-
KNOX-LINCOLN-
332 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT KNOX COUNTY AND LINCOLN COUNTY
THROUGH 415 PM EDT...
AT 332 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 3 MILES WEST OF NEWCASTLE...
OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF DAMARISCOTTA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND
WISCASSET...NOBLEBORO...ALNA...NEWCASTLE...DAMARISCOTTA...EDGECOMB...
BREMEN...BRISTOL...ROUND POND AND BOOTHBAY THROUGH 415 PM EDT.
SMALL HAIL ...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING
AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED.
LAT...LON 4384 6936 4387 6933 4391 6942 4386 6937
4389 6945 4383 6950 4386 6953 4382 6954
4381 6958 4375 6957 4376 6960 4375 6961
4408 6975 4414 6949 4395 6939 4395 6942
4394 6936 4390 6937 4385 6931
SJCSpecial weather statement, Jul 2, 3:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 348 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012 MEZ019-024-022015- COASTAL CUMBERLAND-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND- 348 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT CUMBERLAND COUNTY THROUGH 415 PM EDT... AT 347 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CUMBERLAND...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF NORTH WINDHAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND CUMBERLAND...COUSINS ISLAND AND FALMOUTH THROUGH 415 PM EDT. HAIL UP TO QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS AND STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MORE THAN 5 MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 4385 7042 4388 7037 4377 7013 4368 7031 MARINE
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
421 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012
MEZ024>026-022045-
COASTAL CUMBERLAND-LINCOLN-SAGADAHOC-
421 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SAGADAHOC COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY
AND CUMBERLAND COUNTY THROUGH 445 PM EDT...
AT 421 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES
SOUTH OF WISCASSET TO 2 MILES WEST OF BATH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND
WISCASSET...BATH...WOOLWICH...EDGECOMB...WESTPORT...BOOTHBAY...
ARROWSIC...PEMAQUID...EAST BOOTHBAY AND CHAMBERLAIN THROUGH 445 PM
EDT.
HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH
CAN BE EXPECTED.
BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THREATENING WEATHER
PASSES.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS AND STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...MOVE INDOORS
OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MORE THAN 5
MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4388 6945 4389 6945 4387 6947 4379 6974
4395 6990 4402 6966 4389 6943 4388 6943
MARINESpecial weather statement, Jul 2, 5:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Sagadahoc | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 35 min |
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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.