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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME

May 3, 2025Cheshire County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2025, 3:07 PM EDT for Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 38 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
May 3, 2025, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2025, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Cheshire County, NH

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 3, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-05-03Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 3:32 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryGYXKennebec, Somerset, Waldo4 hr
May 3, 2:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX56 min
May 3, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXYork28 min
May 3, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXYork35 min
May 3, 4:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX58 min
May 3, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGYX84 min
May 3, 1:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXSullivan30 min
May 3, 1:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXRockingham24 min
May 3, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXHillsborough58 min
May 3, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham37 min
May 3, 6:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGYXRockingham29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2025Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.