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Wind Chill Watch 2, NWS Gray, ME

December 14, 2016Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill watch at Dec 14, 2016, 3:09 AM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Dec 15, 2016, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2016, 3:09 AM EST (08:09 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 15, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 14, 2016, 3:33 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 358 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill watch 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 wind chill watch went out at Dec 13, 11:47 PM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 11:47 PM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 3:08 AM EST	Gale Watch	GYX		12 hr
Dec 14, 8:35 AM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, York	3 hr
Dec 14, 3:33 PM EST	Wind Chill Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more	12 hr
Dec 14, 3:33 PM EST	Wind Chill Warning	GYX	Franklin, Oxford, Somerset	44 hr
Dec 14, 3:34 PM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		43 hr
Dec 14, 3:34 PM EST	Storm Watch	GYX		11 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Watches in Maine, 2016 Wind Chill Watches in New Hampshire, 2016 Every wind chill watch in 2016

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.