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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this high wind watch at Apr 18, 2022, 4:03 AM EDT for Knox County, Waldo County, Maine. It took effect at Apr 19, 2022, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2022, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2022, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2022, 3:55 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Knox County, ME, Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 18, 1:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 1:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:09 AM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 35 hr | |
| Apr 18, 4:09 AM EDT | Storm Warning | GYX | 35 hr | |
| Apr 18, 3:55 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | GYX | Knox, Waldo | 20 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:55 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc | 20 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:41 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 23 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:41 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 23 hr |
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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.