Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1999, 2:13 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1999, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1999, 3:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2:17 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Clayton Lake, ME | The hail stripped leaves from trees. |
| Jul 28, 2:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | St Francis, ME |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 75 min |
| Jul 28, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.