Alert archive / Maine / Wind Advisories in 2021
Wind Advisory 11, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Oct 31, 2021, 8:05 AM EDT for 4 counties in Maine. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2021, 8:05 AM EDT (12:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 668 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 649 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
922 WWUS71 KGYX 311205 NPWGYX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Gray ME 805 AM EDT Sun Oct 31 2021 MEZ025>028-311500- /O.EXP.KGYX.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-211031T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KGYX.WI.Y.0011.211031T1205Z-211031T1500Z/ Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox-Coastal Waldo- Including the cities of Arrowsic, Bath, Phippsburg, Bowdoinham, Topsham, Bowdoin, Whitefield, Dresden, Alna, Bremen, Bristol, Damariscotta, Newcastle, Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset, Waldoboro, Owls Head, Rockland, Appleton, Camden, Hope, Rockport, Thomaston, Belfast, Northport, Searsmont, and Lincolnville 805 AM EDT Sun Oct 31 2021 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 46 mph. * WHERE...Coastal Waldo, Knox, Lincoln and Sagadahoc Counties. * WHEN...Until 11 AM EDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. && $$ mle
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 10:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc, York | 6 hr |
| Oct 31, 12:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 3 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:12 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 5 hr | |
| Oct 31, 4:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, York | 8 hr |
| Oct 31, 4:25 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 31, 4:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Lincoln, Sagadahoc | 7 hr |
| Oct 31, 5:03 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 10 hr |
| Oct 31, 8:00 AM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 4 hr | |
| Oct 31, 12:18 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 34 hr |
Nearby
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.