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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT for Strafford County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 45 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, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
County Strafford County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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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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, 5:59 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 5:59 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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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, 3:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
341 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
MEZ025>027-062015-
SAGADAHOC ME-KNOX ME-LINCOLN ME-
341 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY MAINE HAS ISSUED A
* SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR...
SAGADAHOC COUNTY IN MAINE
KNOX COUNTY IN MAINE
LINCOLN COUNTY IN MAINE
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 340 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR
WALDOBORO TO NEAR BOWDOINHAM...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
* PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DAMARISCOTTA...
WISCASSET...
THOMASTON...
WARREN...
AND BOWDOINHAM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PROLONGED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE WATER TO FLOW OVER THE ROADWAY. DO
NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE THE ROAD HAS BECOME FLOODED.
&&
LAT...LON 4402 6937 4408 6939 4401 6939 4397 6956
4399 6956 4399 6955 4403 6954 4391 6974
4396 6982 4394 6981 4394 6996 4401 6994
4406 6979 4401 6985 4397 6983 4398 6983
4407 6978 4418 6946 4419 6922 4408 6915
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 261DEG 28KT 4409 6944 4399 6987
KIMBLELocal storm report, Aug 6, 4:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 10:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 46 min |
| 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 |
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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.