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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Gray, ME

June 2, 2023Cumberland County, Oxford County, York County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2023, 3:56 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Oxford County, York County, Maine. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2023, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2023, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cumberland County, ME, Oxford County, ME, York County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:04 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:14 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:21 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:43 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	37 min
Jun 2, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX		29 min
Jun 2, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	37 min
Jun 2, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	28 min
Jun 2, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	37 min
Jun 2, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	35 min
Jun 2, 2:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Somerset	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford	32 min
Jun 2, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Kennebec	28 min
Jun 2, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cumberland	61 min
Jun 2, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Kennebec	39 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Androscoggin	47 min
Jun 2, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Waldo	35 min
Jun 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	York	50 min
Jun 2, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Sagadahoc	18 min
Jun 2, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	28 min
Jun 2, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	22 min
Jun 2, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	32 min
Jun 2, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap	25 min
Jun 2, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Hillsborough	26 min
Jun 2, 3:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Hillsborough	3 hr
Jun 2, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cheshire	33 min
Jun 2, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cheshire	31 min
Jun 2, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Coos	33 min
Jun 2, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Strafford	36 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	58 min
Jun 2, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap	34 min
Jun 2, 5:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cheshire	5 hr
Jun 2, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan	42 min
Jun 2, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Rockingham	40 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Belknap	46 min
Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	45 min
Jun 2, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Hillsborough	44 min
Jun 2, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Cheshire	47 min
Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Grafton	52 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.