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Wind Chill Advisory 8, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 17, 2013, 3:05 PM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 17, 2013, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2013, 3:05 PM EST (20:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2013, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2013, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 chill advisory went out at Feb 17, 11:27 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 11:27 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 3:09 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | GYX | 21 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.