Alert archive / New Hampshire / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Jun 2, 2012, 5:40 PM EDT for Coos County, Grafton County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2012, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
951 WWUS71 KGYX 022140 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 540 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2012 ...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE IN THE HILLTOPS AND MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE THROUGH THE EVENING.... .A BURST OF STRONG WINDS ABOVE 1000 FEET WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE GUSTS WILL BE FELT IN AREAS MAINLY ABOVE 1000 FEET. THE COMBINATIONS OF THESE WINDS AND WET GROUND WILL BRING DOWN SOME TREES AND POWERS LINES THROUGH MOST OF THE EVENING. NHZ001>003-005-007-030200- /O.NEW.KGYX.WI.Y.0003.120602T2140Z-120603T0200Z/ NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN GRAFTON- SULLIVAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COLEBROOK...BERLIN...LANCASTER... LITTLETON...LEBANON...HANOVER...PLYMOUTH...CLAREMONT...NEWPORT... CHARLESTOWN 540 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING MAINLY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 1000 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...EAST TO SOUTHEAST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ON THE HILLSIDES AND HILLTOPS. * TIMING...WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF TREES AND WET GROUND COULD RESULT IN FALLEN TREES AND POWER LINES. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
349 WWUS71 KGYX 030203 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1003 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2012 NHZ001>003-005-007-030315- /O.EXP.KGYX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120603T0200Z/ NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN GRAFTON- SULLIVAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COLEBROOK...BERLIN...LANCASTER... LITTLETON...LEBANON...HANOVER...PLYMOUTH...CLAREMONT...NEWPORT... CHARLESTOWN 1003 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE HAVE DIMINISHED...AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO OVERNIGHT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:05 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 14 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.