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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 2019, 2:29 PM EDT for Kennebec County, Lincoln County, Sagadahoc County, Maine. It was in force for 19 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
- Sep 24, 2019, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2019, 2:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Kennebec County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Sep 24, 9:50 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 9:50 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Gray ME 403 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2019 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>015-250815- Northern Oxford-Northern Franklin-Central Somerset-Southern Oxford- Southern Franklin-Southern Somerset-Interior York- Interior Cumberland-Androscoggin-Kennebec-Interior Waldo- Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox-Coastal Waldo- Northern Coos-Southern Coos-Northern Grafton-Northern Carroll- Southern Grafton-Southern Carroll-Sullivan-Merrimack-Belknap- Strafford-Cheshire-Eastern Hillsborough-Interior Rockingham- Coastal Rockingham-Western And Central Hillsborough- 403 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Maine, south central Maine, southwest Maine, west central Maine, western Maine, New Hampshire, central New Hampshire, northern New Hampshire and southern New Hampshire. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ150>154-250815- Coastal Waters from Stonington, ME to Port Clyde, ME out 25 NM- Penobscot Bay- Coastal Waters from Port Clyde, ME to Cape Elizabeth, ME out 25 NM- Casco Bay- Coastal Waters from Cape Elizabeth, ME to Merrimack River, MA out 25 NM- 403 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 24, 2:23 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 11:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 11:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 32 min |
| Sep 23, 11:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 34 min |
| Sep 24, 12:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 12:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:00 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 10 hr | |
| Sep 24, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Sagadahoc | 37 min |
| Sep 24, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Knox | 34 min |
| Sep 24, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 45 min |
| Sep 24, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Waldo | 39 min |
| Sep 24, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 37 min | |
| Sep 24, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 43 min |
| Sep 24, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 42 min |
| Sep 24, 3:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Kennebec, Somerset | 113 min |
| Sep 24, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 48 min |
| Sep 24, 3:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 89 min |
| Sep 24, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 41 min | |
| Sep 24, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Knox | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox | 30 min |
| Sep 24, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 58 min |
| Sep 24, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Somerset, Waldo | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cheshire, Sullivan | 35 min |
| Sep 23, 9:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Grafton | 42 min |
| Sep 23, 9:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Hillsborough | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 10:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 37 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.