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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Gray, ME

August 26, 2021Androscoggin County, Oxford County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2021, 4:22 PM EDT for Androscoggin County, Oxford County, Maine. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 2021, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Oxford County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1438 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

270 
WUUS51 KGYX 262022
SVRGYX
MEC001-017-262100-
/O.NEW.KGYX.SV.W.0082.210826T2022Z-210826T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Gray ME
422 PM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021

The National Weather Service in Gray Maine has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Oxford County in western Maine...
  Central Androscoggin County in southwestern Maine...

* Until 500 PM EDT.

* At 421 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near South Paris, 
  moving east at 15 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Lewiston, Mechanic Falls, Turner, Greene, Leeds, Buckfield, Hebron,
  Norway, Minot, Oxford, Paris, Otisfield, West Paris and Poland.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4418 7063 4432 7056 4431 7011 4402 7025
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 283DEG 15KT 4422 7049 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Kimble

1 follow-up statement

279 
WWUS51 KGYX 262046
SVSGYX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Gray ME
446 PM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021

MEC001-017-262100-
/O.CON.KGYX.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-210826T2100Z/
Oxford ME-Androscoggin ME-
446 PM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL OXFORD AND CENTRAL ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTIES...

At 445 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located southwest of 
Turner, moving east at 15 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Lewiston, Mechanic Falls, Turner, Greene, Leeds, Buckfield, Hebron,
Minot, Oxford and Paris.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4417 7053 4429 7043 4427 7013 4406 7023
TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 283DEG 15KT 4420 7035 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Kimble

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Androscoggin	30 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.