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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Jan 21, 2013, 2:58 PM EST for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Jan 21, 2013, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2013, 2:58 PM EST (19:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2013, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2013, 1:11 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 100 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 20, 6:58 PM EST, 20 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 6:58 PM EST, 20 hours before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 6:09 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 7 hr | |
| Jan 21, 2:40 PM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 10 hr | |
| Jan 21, 2:40 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 10 hr | |
| Jan 21, 2:58 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Cumberland | 10 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2013Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2013Every winter storm warning 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.