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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Gray, ME

July 22, 2026York County, Maine; Hillsborough County, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2026, 12:44 PM EDT for York County, Maine; Hillsborough County, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 22, 2026, 12:44 PM EDT (16:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2026, 1:11 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties York County, ME, Hillsborough County, NH, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 22, 10:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 10:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 11:55 AM EDT, 49 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
Jul 22, 2:27 AM EDT	High Surf Advisory	GYX	Knox, Lincoln	18 hr
Jul 22, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	42 min
Jul 22, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland, York	25 min
Jul 22, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	34 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GYX	Somerset	16 min
Jul 22, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	31 min
Jul 22, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2026 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

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.