Alert archive / Maine / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Feb 3, 2016, 2:37 AM EST for Knox County, Waldo County, Maine. It took effect at Feb 3, 2016, 5:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2016, 2:37 AM EST (07:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2016, 5:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2016, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Knox County, ME, Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
573 WWUS71 KGYX 030737 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 237 AM EST WED FEB 3 2016 MEZ027-028-031845- /O.NEW.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.160203T2200Z-160204T0300Z/ KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON... BELFAST...LINCOLNVILLE 237 AM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS MAY DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH...OR WIND GUSTS UP TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
4 follow-up statements
630 WWUS71 KGYX 030752 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 252 AM EST WED FEB 3 2016 LOW PRESSURE WILL INTENSIFY AS IT CROSSES OVER THE GREAT LAKES TODAY. A STRONG SOUTHERLY WIND WILL DEVELOP OUT AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM. BY LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING...WINDS WILL GUST TO 50 MPH ALONG PORTIONS OF THE MIDCOAST REGION. THIS MAY DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. MEZ027-028-031800- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.160203T2200Z-160204T0300Z/ KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON... BELFAST...LINCOLNVILLE 252 AM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS MAY DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH...OR WIND GUSTS UP TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
498 WWUS71 KGYX 031734 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1234 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... MEZ027-028-040145- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.160203T2200Z-160204T0300Z/ KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON... BELFAST...LINCOLNVILLE 1234 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS MAY DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH...OR WIND GUSTS UP TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ LEGRO
369 WWUS71 KGYX 031933 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 233 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... MEZ027-028-040300- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.160203T2200Z-160204T0300Z/ KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON... BELFAST...LINCOLNVILLE 233 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO SOUTHERN CANADA. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS MAY DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH...OR WIND GUSTS UP TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ LEGRO
837 WWUS71 KGYX 040327 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1027 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...WINDS WILL BE DIMINISHING OVERNIGHT IN MIDCOAST MAINE... MEZ027-028-040430- /O.EXP.KGYX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160204T0300Z/ KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON... BELFAST...LINCOLNVILLE 1027 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR COASTAL WALDO COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. WINDS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT BUT WILL OCCASIONALLY GUST TO 30 MPH THROUGH 1 AM. $$
Nearby
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.