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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 2:05 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 55 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
- Aug 3, 2000, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Piscataquis County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Greenville, ME | Large tree limbs down across a road north of Chamberlain Lake. |
| Aug 3, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Greenville, ME | Around 1/2 acre of trees were toppled in an area around Churchill Lake by downburst winds. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCAR 031806 SVRCAR MEC021-031900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 205 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MAINE THIS INCLUDES RIPOGENUS * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 205 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOBSTER LAKE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTH OF GREENVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOBSTER LAKE AT 215 PM EDT RIPOGENUS AT 300 PM EDT HAIL...INTENSE LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. $$ LAT...LON 4584 6968 4567 6963 4577 6894 4605 6907 COBB NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.