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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 4:14 AM EST | Hurricane Force Wind Warning | GYX | 31 hr | |
| Jan 9, 4:14 AM EST | Storm Warning | GYX | 31 hr | |
| Jan 9, 4:26 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 9, 5:11 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset and 1 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 9, 5:11 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 30 hr |
| Jan 9, 10:25 AM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 27 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.