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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Gray, ME

May 18, 20188 counties in Maine; Carroll County, Grafton County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this frost advisory at May 18, 2018, 3:34 AM EDT for 8 counties in Maine; Carroll County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at May 18, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 2018, 3:34 AM EDT (07:34 UTC)
In effect from
May 18, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT
Expired
May 19, 2018, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Grafton County, NH

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 15 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2018-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2018-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 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
May 18, 3:34 AM EDTFreeze WarningGYXFranklin, Oxford, Somerset27 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.