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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Gray, ME

July 19, 2013Merrimack County, Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2013, 11:51 PM EDT for Merrimack County, Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2013, 11:51 PM EDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2013, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 8.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 19, 11:05 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 11:05 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 11:01 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 10:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1001 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0935 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MADISON                 44.80N  69.88W
07/19/2013                   SOMERSET           ME   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN IN MADISON REPORTED BY SHERIIFS
            OFFICE

&&

EVENT NUMBER GYX1300247

BROWN

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 10:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1013 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2013

MEZ014-021-022-025>028-200315-
COASTAL WALDO-INTERIOR WALDO-KENNEBEC-KNOX-LINCOLN-SAGADAHOC-SOUTHERN
SOMERSET-
1013 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2013

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT KNOX COUNTY...SAGADAHOC COUNTY...
LINCOLN COUNTY...SOMERSET COUNTY...WALDO COUNTY AND KENNEBEC COUNTY
THROUGH 1115 PM EDT...

AT 1013 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF DETROIT TO FREEDOM TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF DRESDEN...OR
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWPORT TO 4 MILES
SOUTH OF THORNDIKE TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF GARDINER...MOVING EAST AT 55
MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND
WINDSOR...UNITY...TROY...THORNDIKE...SOMERVILLE...PITTSTON...
PITTSFIELD...PALMYRA...PALERMO AND KNOX THROUGH 1115 PM EDT.

HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH LOCAL PONDING IN STREETS AND
LOW-LYING AREAS.

LAT...LON 4405 6866 4411 6879 4400 6877 4404 6893
      4416 6892 4417 6900 4431 6894 4416 6907
      4395 6907 4413 6982 4492 6936 4465 6917
      4468 6881 4446 6880 4439 6897 4436 6885
      4418 6894 4420 6881 4411 6862

MLE

Local storm report, Jul 19, 10:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 10:53 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 11:39 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 11:44 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	33 min
Jul 19, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Oxford	45 min
Jul 19, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset	34 min
Jul 19, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford and 2 more	49 min
Jul 19, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford, York	46 min
Jul 19, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Androscoggin	50 min
Jul 19, 10:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Waldo	62 min
Jul 20, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cumberland	48 min
Jul 20, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		90 min
Jul 20, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford	53 min
Jul 20, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		53 min
Jul 20, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Waldo	29 min
Jul 20, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Kennebec	40 min
Jul 20, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Somerset and 1 more	54 min
Jul 20, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Knox, Lincoln, Waldo	24 min
Jul 20, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		63 min
Jul 19, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Carroll, Coos, Grafton	23 min
Jul 19, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton	42 min
Jul 19, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Sullivan	52 min
Jul 19, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Merrimack, Sullivan	39 min
Jul 19, 11:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Merrimack, Sullivan	118 min
Jul 19, 11:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap, Merrimack, Strafford	66 min
Jul 20, 12:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Strafford	42 min
Jul 20, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Rockingham	26 min
Jul 20, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Coos	55 min
Jul 20, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Coos	28 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.