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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 10:59 AM EDT for Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2016, 10:59 AM EDT (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
County Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 172 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 6, 6:56 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:56 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:30 AM EDT, 7 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 330 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>022-NHZ001>013-015-070730- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR YORK- INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC-INTERIOR WALDO- NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-CHESHIRE-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM- WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH- 330 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MAINE...SOUTH CENTRAL MAINE...SOUTHWEST MAINE...WEST CENTRAL MAINE...WESTERN MAINE...NEW HAMPSHIRE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A THREAT FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS...WITH LARGE HAIL ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. MEZ023>028-NHZ014-070730- COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 330 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MAINE...SOUTHWEST MAINE AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A THREAT FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS...WITH LARGE HAIL ALSO POSSIBLE. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. ANZ150>154-070730- COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON, ME TO PORT CLYDE, ME OUT 25 NM- PENOBSCOT BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT CLYDE, ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH, ME OUT 25 NM- CASCO BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE ELIZABETH, ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER, MA OUT 25 NM- 330 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A THREAT FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. ARNOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:59 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1059 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
MEZ008-009-061545-
NORTHERN FRANKLIN ME-CENTRAL SOMERSET ME-
1059 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY MAINE HAS ISSUED A
* SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR...
NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN MAINE
CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN MAINE
* UNTIL 1145 AM EDT
* AT 1059 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COBURN GORE...MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 45 MPH.
* PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COBURN GORE AND AREAS ALONG 201 SOUTH OF JACKMAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SLOW DOWN AND DO NOT
DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE THE ROAD HAS BECOME FLOODED.
&&
LAT...LON 4561 7004 4526 6999 4530 7082 4532 7080
4534 7082 4537 7080 4540 7082 4543 7080
4543 7077 4542 7074 4539 7072 4539 7068
4538 7065 4540 7062 4543 7063 4545 7068
4549 7072 4550 7071
TIME...MOT...LOC 1458Z 269DEG 38KT 4539 7072
CEMPAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Knox | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Sagadahoc | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 37 min | |
| Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 67 min | |
| Aug 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Belknap | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Strafford | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.