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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME

June 29, 2016Oxford County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2016, 4:13 PM EDT for Oxford County, Maine. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2016, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

County Oxford County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 4:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Nw Sumner, ME	POWER POLE AND WIRES DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

916 
WWUS81 KGYX 292013
SPSGYX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
413 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2016
 
MEZ008-012-013-292100-
NORTHERN FRANKLIN ME-SOUTHERN FRANKLIN ME-SOUTHERN OXFORD ME-
413 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY MAINE HAS ISSUED A

* SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR...
  NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN MAINE
  SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN MAINE
  SOUTHERN OXFORD COUNTY IN MAINE

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BRYANT POND...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
  THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS FALLING...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
  POND ON ROADWAYS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
  STREAMS. EXPECT FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RUMFORD...
  BETHEL...
  BRYANT POND...
  LOCKE MILLS...
  AND WILTON.

LAT...LON 4452 7010 4448 7018 4446 7024 4444 7027
      4443 7028 4424 7067 4438 7083 4473 7035
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 229DEG 26KT 4436 7068 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	4 hr
Jun 29, 4:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Oxford	119 min
Jun 29, 10:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GYX	Franklin, Oxford, Somerset	9 hr
Jun 29, 12:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Knox, Waldo	3 hr
Jun 29, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	York	32 min
Jun 29, 1:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	York	118 min
Jun 29, 1:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	York	39 min
Jun 29, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	62 min
Jun 29, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland, York	43 min
Jun 29, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	55 min
Jun 29, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	54 min
Jun 29, 2:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Oxford	2 hr
Jun 29, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cumberland	44 min
Jun 29, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland	41 min
Jun 29, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		53 min
Jun 29, 2:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	3 hr
Jun 29, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Sagadahoc	58 min
Jun 29, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	40 min
Jun 29, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	42 min
Jun 29, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Waldo	48 min
Jun 29, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	44 min
Jun 29, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford	51 min
Jun 29, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	51 min
Jun 29, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	51 min
Jun 28, 11:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Carroll, Coos, Grafton	112 min
Jun 29, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Strafford	63 min
Jun 29, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Coos	42 min
Jun 29, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Coos	50 min
Jun 29, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap	30 min
Jun 29, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Rockingham	51 min
Jun 29, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Rockingham	26 min
Jun 29, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	40 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.