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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2012, 12:47 PM EDT for Franklin County, Maine. It was in force for 43 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 9, 2012, 12:47 PM EDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2012, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
County Franklin County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 9, 9:47 AM EDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 9:47 AM EDT, 3 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 3:00 AM EDT, 9 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 300 AM EDT THU AUG 9 2012 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-100700- 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- 300 AM EDT THU AUG 9 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ150>154-100700- 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- 300 AM EDT THU AUG 9 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. 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, Aug 9, 12:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1247 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012 MEZ007-008-091730- NORTHERN FRANKLIN-NORTHERN OXFORD- 1247 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT OXFORD COUNTY AND FRANKLIN COUNTY THROUGH 130 PM EDT... AT 1246 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 6 MILES WEST OF BYRON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUMFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND BYRON...MADRID...PHILLIPS...DALLAS...SALEM AND REDINGTON THROUGH 130 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. 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 4511 7046 4487 7015 4462 7071 4472 7085 MARINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 4:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | York | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Merrimack | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos, Grafton | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 38 min |
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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.