Alert archive / New Hampshire / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Feb 25, 2012, 3:33 AM EST for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 25, 2012, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2012, 3:33 AM EST (08:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2012, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2012, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 677 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
996 WWUS71 KGYX 250833 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 333 AM EST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY... MEZ018-019-023-024-NHZ005>010-013-014-251645- /O.NEW.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.120225T1200Z-120225T2100Z/ INTERIOR YORK-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SANFORD...BERWICK...NORTH WINDHAM... GORHAM...BRIDGTON...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH... KITTERY...PORTLAND...SOUTH PORTLAND...WESTBROOK...LEBANON... HANOVER...PLYMOUTH...WOLFEBORO...OSSIPEE...CLAREMONT...NEWPORT... CHARLESTOWN...CONCORD...HOOKSETT...LACONIA...MEREDITH... ROCHESTER...DOVER...SALEM...DERRY...EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...HAMPTON 333 AM EST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. AN OCCASIONAL GUST AROUND 50 MPH IS POSSIBLE. * TIMING...DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS TODAY. * IMPACTS...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND DOWNED BRANCHES. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS STRONG WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH CAN LEAD TO DAMAGE DUE TO DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. && $$
2 follow-up statements
794 WWUS71 KGYX 251350 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 850 AM EST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY... MEZ018-019-023-024-NHZ005>010-013-014-252100- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120225T2100Z/ INTERIOR YORK-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SANFORD...BERWICK...NORTH WINDHAM... GORHAM...BRIDGTON...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH... KITTERY...PORTLAND...SOUTH PORTLAND...WESTBROOK...LEBANON... HANOVER...PLYMOUTH...WOLFEBORO...OSSIPEE...CLAREMONT...NEWPORT... CHARLESTOWN...CONCORD...HOOKSETT...LACONIA...MEREDITH... ROCHESTER...DOVER...SALEM...DERRY...EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...HAMPTON 850 AM EST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS TODAY. * IMPACTS...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND DOWNED BRANCHES. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS STRONG WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH CAN LEAD TO DAMAGE DUE TO DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. && $$
047 WWUS71 KGYX 252015 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 315 PM EST SAT FEB 25 2012 MEZ018-019-023-024-NHZ005>010-013-014-252115- /O.CAN.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120225T2100Z/ INTERIOR YORK-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SANFORD...BERWICK...NORTH WINDHAM... GORHAM...BRIDGTON...BIDDEFORD...SACO...OLD ORCHARD BEACH... KITTERY...PORTLAND...SOUTH PORTLAND...WESTBROOK...LEBANON... HANOVER...PLYMOUTH...WOLFEBORO...OSSIPEE...CLAREMONT...NEWPORT... CHARLESTOWN...CONCORD...HOOKSETT...LACONIA...MEREDITH... ROCHESTER...DOVER...SALEM...DERRY...EXETER...PORTSMOUTH...HAMPTON 315 PM EST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 6:40 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 15 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in New Hampshire, 2012Wind Advisories in Maine, 2012Every wind advisory 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.