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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Gray, ME

June 28, 2019Kennebec County, Knox County, Lincoln County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2019, 4:03 PM EDT for Kennebec County, Knox County, Lincoln County, Maine. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2019, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2019, 4:37 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 322 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 12:00Z on 2019-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 2019-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 4:44 PM EDT, 23 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 4:44 PM EDT, 23 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:11 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryGYXCumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York11 hr
Jun 27, 9:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXSomerset41 min
Jun 28, 2:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXKennebec33 min
Jun 28, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXLincoln35 min
Jun 28, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXLincoln29 min
Jun 28, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX85 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.