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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2020, 4:14 PM EDT for Knox County, Lincoln County, Maine. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 25, 2020, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2020, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
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 Aug 25, 3:57 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 3:57 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 24, 11:38 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 11:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 30 min |
| Aug 25, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 30 min |
| Aug 25, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo | 41 min |
| Aug 25, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 42 min |
| Aug 25, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Oxford | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Waldo | 30 min |
| Aug 25, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Sagadahoc | 24 min |
| Aug 25, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Lincoln, Waldo | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 42 min | |
| Aug 25, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Lincoln | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 29 min | |
| Aug 25, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 52 min | |
| Aug 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Waldo | 36 min |
| Aug 25, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 31 min |
| Aug 25, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 59 min | |
| Aug 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 65 min | |
| Aug 24, 8:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Belknap | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 9:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Carroll | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Belknap | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Carroll | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Merrimack, Sullivan | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 13 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.