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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Caribou, ME

April 12, 1993Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 1993, 1:07 AM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 12, 1993, 1:07 AM EDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1993, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Aroostook County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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, Caribou, ME at 00:00Z on 1993-04-12Temperature 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, Caribou, ME at 00:00Z on 1993-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 7:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCARAroostook3 hr

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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.