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Wind Chill Warning 6, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill warning at Feb 22, 2015, 3:23 PM EST for 4 counties in Maine; 5 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 23, 2015, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 17 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2015, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2015, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2015, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 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 wind chill warning went out at Feb 21, 6:07 PM EST, 21 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 6:07 PM EST, 21 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 5:54 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 5 hr | |
| Feb 22, 3:07 PM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 37 hr | |
| Feb 22, 3:07 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 37 hr | |
| Feb 22, 3:07 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | GYX | 39 hr | |
| Feb 22, 3:07 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | GYX | 24 hr | |
| Feb 22, 3:23 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 39 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Warnings in New Hampshire, 2015Wind Chill Warnings in Maine, 2015Every wind chill warning 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.