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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Gray, ME

October 4, 2015York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this high surf advisory at Oct 4, 2015, 8:34 AM EDT for York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 2015, 8:34 AM EDT (12:34 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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 2015-10-04Temperature 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 2015-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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
Oct 3, 11:38 PM EDTFreeze WarningGYXOxford9 hr
Oct 4, 2:33 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGYX13 hr
Oct 4, 3:11 PM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasGYX4 days
Oct 4, 3:13 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more17 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Maine, 2015High Surf Advisories in New Hampshire, 2015Every high surf advisory in 2015

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.