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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Gray, ME

September 18, 20145 counties in Maine; 4 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this frost advisory at Sep 18, 2014, 2:50 PM EDT for 5 counties in Maine; 4 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Sep 19, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 18, 2014, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 19, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 19, 2014, 6:47 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 279 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-09-18Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 18, 10:50 AM EDTFreeze WarningGYXFranklin, Oxford, Somerset20 hr
Sep 18, 2:54 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGYX19 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Maine, 2014Frost Advisories in New Hampshire, 2014Every frost advisory in 2014

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.