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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Gray, ME

December 17, 202511 counties in Maine; 10 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Dec 17, 2025, 11:58 PM EST for 11 counties in Maine; 10 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Dec 19, 2025, 8:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 2025, 11:58 PM EST (04:58 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 19, 2025, 8:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 20, 2025, 8:00 AM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME

All 21 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, Coos 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -348 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 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 Dec 17, 12:22 PM EST, 11 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 12:22 PM EST, 11 hours 36 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
Dec 18, 12:01 AM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		14 hr
Dec 18, 12:01 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		6 hr
Dec 18, 12:01 AM EST	Storm Warning	GYX		43 hr
Dec 18, 1:02 PM EST	High Wind Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo	30 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.