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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Jan 28, 2022, 4:11 AM EST for 7 counties in Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Jan 29, 2022, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2022, 4:11 AM EST (09:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 29, 2022, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2022, 12:40 AM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 1840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 27, 10:54 PM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 10:54 PM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 3:20 AM EST | Storm Warning | GYX | 44 hr | |
| Jan 28, 4:11 AM EST | Blizzard Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more | 44 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:11 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 11 hr |
| Jan 28, 3:21 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 33 hr |
| Jan 28, 3:25 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 19 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2022Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2022Every winter storm warning in 2022
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.