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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Gray, ME

July 9, 2014Merrimack County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2014, 8:44 PM EDT for Merrimack County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 46 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 9, 2014, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2014, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Merrimack County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 00:00Z on 2014-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2014-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -71 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 9, 10:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXYork37 min
Jul 9, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSullivan52 min
Jul 9, 9:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXBelknap32 min
Jul 9, 10:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXRockingham40 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.