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Snow Squall Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this snow squall warning at Jan 22, 2026, 4:34 PM EST for Franklin County, Oxford County, Somerset County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 41 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
- Jan 22, 2026, 4:34 PM EST (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2026, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Coos County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 120 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 12:49 AM EST | Gale Watch | GYX | 19 hr | |
| Jan 22, 12:49 AM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 57 hr | |
| Jan 22, 11:57 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 49 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:38 PM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:38 PM EST | Extreme Cold Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 45 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 43 min |
| Jan 22, 3:46 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | GYX | Oxford | 44 min |
| Jan 22, 5:34 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset | 41 min |
| Jan 22, 3:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 61 min |
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.