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Coastal Flood Statement 17, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 21, 2016, 11:02 AM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 21, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 21, 2016, 11:02 AM EDT (15:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 21, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2016, 5:39 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 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at Oct 21, 8:31 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 21, 8:31 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2:45 PM EDT | Gale Watch | GYX | 13 hr | |
| Oct 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham | 3 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in Maine, 2016Coastal Flood Statements in New Hampshire, 2016Every coastal flood statement in 2016
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.