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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Gray, ME

July 7, 2014Cumberland County, York County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2014, 4:33 PM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine. It was in force for 42 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 7, 2014, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2014, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2014-07-07Temperature 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2014-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 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
Jul 7, 3:17 AM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasGYX31 hr
Jul 7, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCumberland33 min
Jul 7, 7:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXKennebec51 min
Jul 7, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXKennebec26 min
Jul 7, 1:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXSullivan63 min
Jul 7, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton, Merrimack34 min
Jul 7, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXBelknap, Carroll56 min
Jul 7, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton, Merrimack38 min
Jul 7, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Strafford36 min
Jul 7, 4:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXCarroll43 min

Nearby

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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.