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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2015, 4:16 PM EDT for Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 3, 2015, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2015, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 3, 3:16 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:16 PM EDT, 1 hour before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 3:34 AM EDT, 12 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 334 AM EDT MON AUG 3 2015 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>015-040745- 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-CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM- COASTAL ROCKINGHAM-WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH- 334 AM EDT MON AUG 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE...SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT...ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER TUESDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. ANZ150>154-040745- 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- 334 AM EDT MON AUG 3 2015 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT...ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER TUESDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. ES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:13 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 413 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2015 MEZ008-009-032045- CENTRAL SOMERSET ME-NORTHERN FRANKLIN ME- 413 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY MAINE HAS ISSUED A * SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR... CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN MAINE NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN MAINE * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CARRABASSETT VALLEY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CARRABASSETT VALLEY... THE FORKS... FLAGSTAFF LAKE... AND CARATUNK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PROLONGED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE WATER TO FLOW OVER THE ROADWAY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE THE ROAD HAS BECOME FLOODED. && LAT...LON 4505 7023 4520 7039 4544 7007 4519 6976 TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 234DEG 25KT 4517 7023
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 2:48 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 12 hr | |
| Aug 3, 2:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | 40 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford, York | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin, Oxford | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Grafton | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cheshire, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos, Grafton | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos, Grafton | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 6:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Carroll, Coos, Grafton | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Cheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham and 2 more | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Caledonia | 80 min |
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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.