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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Gray, ME

October 12, 20175 counties in Maine; 9 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this frost advisory at Oct 12, 2017, 2:37 PM EDT for 5 counties in Maine; 9 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 13, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 2017, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 13, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 13, 2017, 6:48 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2017-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2017-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 2:37 PM EDTFreeze WarningGYXCarroll, Grafton16 hr

Nearby

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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.