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Winter Storm Warning 10, NWS Gray, ME

March 14, 20156 counties in Maine; Carroll County, Coos County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Mar 14, 2015, 3:57 AM EDT for 6 counties in Maine; Carroll County, Coos County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Mar 14, 2015, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 14, 2015, 3:57 AM EDT (07:57 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2015, 5:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2015, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 313 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 13, 10:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 10:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 3:57 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, York	24 hr
Mar 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Gale Warning	GYX		43 hr
Mar 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		48 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2015 Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2015 Every winter storm 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.