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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 2, 2018, 3:23 AM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Carroll County, Coos County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 2, 2018, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2018, 3:23 AM EST (08:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 2, 2018, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2018, 8:59 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 315 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 1, 3:32 PM EST, 11 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 3:32 PM EST, 11 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 8:50 AM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 4 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in Maine, 2018Wind Chill Advisories in New Hampshire, 2018Every wind chill advisory 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.