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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Gray, ME

January 13, 2017Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 13, 2017, 3:08 AM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Jan 13, 2017, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 13, 2017, 3:08 AM EST (08:08 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 13, 2017, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 14, 2017, 8:32 AM EST
In force
11 hr
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 08:06 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

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Caribou, ME at 00:00Z on 2017-01-13Temperature 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, Caribou, ME at 00:00Z on 2017-01-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 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
Jan 13, 2:34 AM ESTGale WarningGYX16 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Maine, 2017Wind Chill Advisories in New Hampshire, 2017Every wind chill advisory in 2017

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.