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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 394
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 18, 2016, 11:12 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2016, 11:12 AM EDT (15:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Androscoggin County, ME, Aroostook County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Hancock County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, Washington County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Addison County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
43 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 11:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Essex, Orleans | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 12:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Franklin | 59 min |
| Jul 18, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Essex | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 37 min |
| Jul 18, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 1:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GYX | Oxford | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 2:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GYX | Franklin | 15 min |
| Jul 18, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Essex, Franklin | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cheshire | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Essex, Lamoille, Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Hillsborough | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Carroll | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Coos, Grafton | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford, York | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 23 min |
| Jul 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 5:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 27 min |
| Jul 18, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Carroll, Coos, Grafton | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orange, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex, Franklin, Orleans | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Waldo | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford, York | 27 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 10:32 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Lincoln, Oxford and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jul 18, 3:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec and 10 more | 84 min |
| Jul 18, 6:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec and 10 more | 86 min |
| Jul 18, 11:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Bronx, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Fulton and 19 more | 95 min |
| Jul 18, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albany, Bronx, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango and 37 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maine, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Hampshire, 2016Every severe thunderstorm 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.