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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Gray, ME

June 2, 2012Coos County, Grafton County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

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.

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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2012-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2012-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 10:05 AM EDTCoastal Flood WarningGYXRockingham14 hr

Nearby

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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.