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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME

January 9, 20246 counties in Maine; Coos County, Grafton County, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this high wind warning at Jan 9, 2024, 4:26 AM EST for 6 counties in Maine; Coos County, Grafton County, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Jan 9, 2024, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 13 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 9, 2024, 4:26 AM EST (09:26 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 9, 2024, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 10, 2024, 11:15 AM EST
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Cumberland County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2024-01-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2024-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 8, 10:55 PM EST, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 10:55 PM EST, 5 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 4:14 AM ESTHurricane Force Wind WarningGYX31 hr
Jan 9, 4:14 AM ESTStorm WarningGYX31 hr
Jan 9, 4:26 AM ESTWind AdvisoryGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more33 hr
Jan 9, 5:11 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset and 1 more30 hr
Jan 9, 5:11 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryGYXCumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York30 hr
Jan 9, 10:25 AM ESTCoastal Flood WarningGYXCumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York27 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Maine, 2024High Wind Warnings in New Hampshire, 2024Every high wind warning in 2024

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.