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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Gray, ME

November 23, 201311 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Nov 23, 2013, 3:38 PM EST for 11 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Nov 24, 2013, 3:14 AM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 23, 2013, 3:38 PM EST (20:38 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 24, 2013, 3:14 AM EST
Expired: Nov 24, 2013, 7:40 PM EST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Nov 23, 2:36 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 2:36 PM EST, 1 hour 2 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
Nov 23, 3:16 PM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		40 hr
Nov 23, 4:41 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan	2 hr
Nov 23, 4:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan	2 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Maine, 2013 Wind Advisories in New Hampshire, 2013 Every wind advisory in 2013

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.