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Wind Chill Advisory 8, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 12, 2015, 3:38 AM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 13, 2015, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2015, 3:38 AM EST (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2015, 5:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2015, 3:57 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 1982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 12, 3:27 AM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 3:27 AM EST, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 3:35 AM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 33 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:35 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 33 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:35 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | GYX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:27 PM EST | Gale Watch | GYX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:27 PM EST | Storm Watch | GYX | 21 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:57 PM EST | Blizzard Watch | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:57 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset, York | 24 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in Maine, 2015Wind Chill Advisories in New Hampshire, 2015Every wind chill 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.