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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Gray, ME

October 10, 2016Oxford County, Maine; 4 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this freeze warning at Oct 10, 2016, 3:12 AM EDT for Oxford County, Maine; 4 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 11, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
Oct 10, 2016, 3:12 AM EDT (07:12 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 11, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 11, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Oxford County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 2016-10-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2016-10-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -186 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-150 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 9, 7:52 PM EDT, 7 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 7:52 PM EDT, 7 hours 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 10, 3:12 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo and 1 more29 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New Hampshire, 2016Freeze Warnings in Maine, 2016Every freeze warning 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.