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Coastal Flood Statement 15, NWS Gray, ME

October 18, 2016Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 18, 2016, 3:43 AM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 18, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 2016, 3:43 AM EDT (07:43 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 18, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 18, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 00:00Z on 2016-10-18Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2016-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.