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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Apr 30, 2023, 3:25 AM EDT for 8 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Apr 30, 2023, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2023, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2023, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 1, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 362 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 Apr 29, 10:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 10:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 3:30 AM EDT | Storm Warning | GYX | 27 hr | |
| Apr 30, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Oxford | 34 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford | 46 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 42 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Merrimack | 4 days |
| Apr 30, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 27 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Grafton | 24 hr |
Nearby
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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.