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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Gray, ME

March 13, 202311 counties in Maine; 9 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this winter storm warning at Mar 13, 2023, 3:26 AM EDT for 11 counties in Maine; 9 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Mar 13, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 35 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: Mar 13, 2023, 3:26 AM EDT (07:26 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 13, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2023, 7:16 AM EDT
In force: 35 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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.

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 Mar 12, 11:21 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:21 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 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
Mar 13, 3:40 AM EDT	Gale Warning	GYX		71 hr
Mar 13, 3:40 AM EDT	Storm Warning	GYX		43 hr
Mar 13, 10:00 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Watch	GYX	Cumberland, York	18 hr
Mar 13, 3:28 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Oxford, Somerset	44 hr
Mar 13, 3:49 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, York	12 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2023 Winter Storm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2023 Every winter storm warning in 2023

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.