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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2014, 5:55 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Maine. It was in force for 35 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 5, 2014, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2014, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
County Cumberland County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 328 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 5, 2:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 256 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST OFF THE COAST TONIGHT. ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES IN ON WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL THEN PRODUCE SCATTERED DAYTIME SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH MAINLY CLEAR CONDITIONS AND A GRADUAL WARMING TREND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT AND ALONG AND AHEAD OF IT SCT SHWRS/TSTMS ARE EXPECTED. LATER TONIGHT THE CONVECTION WILL COME TO AN END AS THE FRONT PUSHES OFFSHORE AND A NWLY FLOW DEVELOPS. ALL MODELS GENERALLY AGREE ON TIMING OF THE FROPA. TEMPS AND POPS DERIVED BY A BLEND OF MODELS. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT/... THE UPPER TROUGH WITH ITS CYCLONIC FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION WED WITH ANOTHER IMPULSE TO MOVE THROUGH THE FLOW IN THE AFTN ACROSS SRN AREAS. THIS WILL CAUSE WDLY SCT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN IN THE AFTN AND INTO THE EVENING OVER SRN AREAS DUE IN LARGE PART TO THE DIURNAL HEATING ALLOWING AFTN LAPSE RATES TO STEEPEN. BY LATER IN THE EVENING ANY CONVECTION WILL QUICKLY COME TO AN END. MAX TEMPS WILL BE MID 70S TO AROUND 80. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE COOL WITH TEMPS RANGING FROM THE UPPER 40S TO UPPER 50S. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... AMPLIFIED 500MB TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVES NE THU AND FRI. THE COLD POOL ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TROUGH...COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING...WILL PRODUCE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS BOTH THU AND FRI AND WILL PRODUCE THE THREAT OF SHOWERS...AND PERHAPS A FEW TSRA. THURSDAY WILL SEE A BETTER CHC OF SEEING ANY SHRA/TSRA...ESPECIALLY AWAY FROM THE COAST. AS THE TROUGH LIFTS NE ON FRI...THE BEST CHC FOR ANY SHRA WILL BE IN THE NRN AND ERN ZONES. IT WILL BE LESS HUMID WITH DAYTIME HIGHS MID 70S TO AROUND 80...AND OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 50S. DECENT RIDGING BUILDS AT 500 MB THOUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO AT LEAST TUESDAY...WITH SFC RIDGE MOVING ACROSS THE CWA DURING THE WEEKEND AND SLIDING OFFSHORE EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL MAKE FOR A FAIR PERIOD WITH GRADUALLY WARMING TEMPS. AS THE SFC HIGH MOVES OVERHEAD...LOOK FOR A MAINLY SUNNY WEEKEND WITH HIGHS AROUND 80 AND LOWS IN THE MID 50S TO NEAR 60. WHEN THE HIGH SHIFTS OFFSHORE MON AND TUE...THE SW RETURN FLOW WILL BRING IN WARMER AND MORE HUMID AIR...WITH HIGHS GENERALLY 80 TO 85 AND TDS CLIMBING INTO THE LOW 60S. THE NEXT CHC OF SHRA/TSRA WILL HOLD OFF UNTIL TUE NIGHT OR WED AS WEAK 500 MB TROUGH MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. && .AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... SHORT TERM...VFR CONDS BUT SCT SHWRS/ISOLD TSTMS DEVELOP GIVING POTENTIAL TO BRIEFLY LWRG CONDS AT TIMES TO MVFR/IFR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. LATER TONIGHT FROPA OCCURS WITH CLEARING BEHIND THE FRONT. ON WED AN UPPER TROF AXIS REMAINS OVER THE AREA AND MAY PRODUCE WDLY SCT AFTN/EARLY EVNG SHWRS/TSTMS OVER SRN AREAS. LONG TERM...MAINLY VFR...EXCEPT FOR VLY FOG...WHICH WILL BE POSSIBLE THU NIGHT THRU SAT NIGHT. && .MARINE... SHORT TERM... WEAK PRESSURE PATTERN WITH WEAK COLD FRONTS MOVING THRU KEEPING WINDS AND SEAS BELOW SCA LEVELS. LONG TERM...WINDS/SEAS WILL REMAIN COMFORTABLY BLO SAC LVLS RIGHT THRU THE WEEKEND. && .GYX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ME...NONE. NH...NONE. MARINE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 306 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-061000- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR YORK- INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC-INTERIOR WALDO- COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 306 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ150>154-061000- STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME OUT TO 25 NM-PENOBSCOT BAY- PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME OUT TO 25 NM-CASCO BAY- CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM- 306 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CASCO BAY...PENOBSCOT BAY...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:18 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 62 min |
| Aug 5, 5:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Somerset | 85 min |
| Aug 5, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Sagadahoc | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Carroll | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Grafton | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 28 min |
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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.