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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Gray, ME

February 2, 2018Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this coastal flood statement at Feb 2, 2018, 8:50 AM EST for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 2, 2018, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 2, 2018, 8:50 AM EST (13:50 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 2, 2018, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 2, 2018, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 129 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -325 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 coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at Feb 1, 3:32 PM EST, 17 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 3:32 PM EST, 17 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 3:35 PM EST, 17 hours 15 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
Feb 2, 3:23 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Oxford, Somerset	30 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Maine, 2018 Coastal Flood Statements in New Hampshire, 2018 Every coastal flood statement in 2018

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.