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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Feb 23, 2022, 3:16 AM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Feb 23, 2022, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2022, 3:16 AM EST (08:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2022, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2022, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 700 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 873 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 22, 4:12 PM EST, 11 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 4:12 PM EST, 11 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 3:07 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 4 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 23, 5:49 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 10 hr | |
| Feb 23, 3:24 PM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 9 hr | |
| Feb 23, 2:18 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 9 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:05 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Belknap, Grafton | 20 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.