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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Gray, ME

March 6, 202511 counties in Maine; 10 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this wind advisory at Mar 6, 2025, 2:59 PM EST for 11 counties in Maine; 10 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Mar 7, 2025, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 2025, 2:59 PM EST (19:59 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 7, 2025, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 7, 2025, 9:00 PM EST
In force
21 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 20:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2025-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2025-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 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
Mar 6, 10:13 AM ESTGale WarningGYX65 hr
Mar 6, 10:13 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryGYX12 hr
Mar 6, 4:34 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 3 more5 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Maine, 2025Wind Advisories in New Hampshire, 2025Every wind advisory 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.