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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME

August 2, 2014Somerset County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2014, 2:41 PM EDT for Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 2014, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2014, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

County Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 10:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 10:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 2:39 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
135 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

MEZ008-009-021800-
CENTRAL SOMERSET-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-
135 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOMERSET COUNTY AND FRANKLIN
COUNTY THROUGH 200 PM EDT...

AT 134 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ATTEAN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
10 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND
AROUND LONG POND...JACKMAN...COBURN GORE...PITTSTON FARM AND ATTEAN
THROUGH 200 PM EDT.

HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS AND STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...MOVE INDOORS
OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MORE THAN 5
MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4586 6964 4586 6971 4577 6972 4574 6979
      4569 6977 4565 6969 4558 6970 4552 6977
      4518 7082 4540 7083 4544 7077 4539 7065
      4551 7074 4568 7056 4574 7040 4580 7043
      4588 7029 4596 7027 4599 6969

HANES

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
241 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

MEZ008-009-021945-
CENTRAL SOMERSET-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-
241 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOMERSET COUNTY AND FRANKLIN
COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM EDT...

AT 241 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLAGSTAFF LAKE...
OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF EUSTIS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND FLAGSTAFF LAKE THROUGH
345 PM EDT.

GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4538 6996 4512 7009 4528 7053 4545 7044

JC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	25 min
Aug 2, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	25 min
Aug 2, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	67 min
Aug 2, 4:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Somerset	84 min
Aug 2, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	90 min
Aug 2, 4:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	118 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maine, 2014 Every special weather statement 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.