Alert archive / Maine / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2016, 3:15 PM EST for 4 counties in Maine. It took effect at Feb 25, 2016, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2016, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2016, 7:14 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 803 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
731 WWUS71 KGYX 242015 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 315 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED FOR MID COAST MAINE LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING... .WINDS WILL SHIFT TO SOUTH AND BECOME STRONG LATE TONIGHT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ALONG THE MID COAST OF MAINE. MEZ025>028-251215- /O.NEW.KGYX.WI.Y.0004.160225T0900Z-160225T1600Z/ SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BATH...TOPSHAM...BOOTHBAY HARBOR... WISCASSET...WALDOBORO...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON...BELFAST... LINCOLNVILLE 315 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 11 AM EST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 11 AM EST THURSDAY. * WINDS...SOUTH INCREASING TO 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND 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. && $$ SCHWIBS
3 follow-up statements
470 WWUS71 KGYX 250427 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1127 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED FOR MID COAST MAINE LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING... .WINDS WILL SHIFT TO SOUTH AND BECOME STRONG LATE TONIGHT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ALONG THE MID COAST OF MAINE. MEZ025>028-251230- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0004.160225T0900Z-160225T1600Z/ SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BATH...TOPSHAM...BOOTHBAY HARBOR... WISCASSET...WALDOBORO...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON...BELFAST... LINCOLNVILLE 1127 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 11 AM EST THURSDAY... * WINDS...SOUTH 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH...OR WIND GUSTS UP TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
015 WWUS71 KGYX 250830 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 330 AM EST THU FEB 25 2016 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS EXPECTED FOR MID COAST MAINE THIS MORNING... WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ALONG THE MID COAST OF MAINE ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE MORNING BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE WEST AND DIMINISHING IN THE AFTERNOON. MEZ025>028-251600- /O.CON.KGYX.WI.Y.0004.160225T0900Z-160225T1600Z/ SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BATH...TOPSHAM...BOOTHBAY HARBOR... WISCASSET...WALDOBORO...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON...BELFAST... LINCOLNVILLE 330 AM EST THU FEB 25 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST THIS MORNING... * WINDS...SOUTH 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND 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. && $$
954 WWUS71 KGYX 251214 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 714 AM EST THU FEB 25 2016 MEZ025>028-251315- /O.CAN.KGYX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160225T1600Z/ SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BATH...TOPSHAM...BOOTHBAY HARBOR... WISCASSET...WALDOBORO...CAMDEN...ROCKLAND...THOMASTON...BELFAST... LINCOLNVILLE 714 AM EST THU FEB 25 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE SHIFTED INTO EASTERN MAINE THIS MORNING. $$
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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.