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Winter Storm Warning 11, NWS Gray, ME

November 26, 20187 counties in Maine; 5 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Nov 26, 2018, 3:13 AM EST for 7 counties in Maine; 5 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Nov 26, 2018, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 26, 2018, 3:13 AM EST (08:13 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 26, 2018, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Nov 27, 2018, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 307 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: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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 winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Nov 25, 10:18 PM EST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 10:18 PM EST, 4 hours 55 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
Nov 26, 3:46 AM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, York	11 hr
Nov 26, 10:58 AM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		28 hr
Nov 26, 11:05 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more	28 hr
Nov 26, 3:26 PM EST	Wind Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	18 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2018 Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2018 Every winter storm warning 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.