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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Caribou, ME

June 29, 2000Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 3:07 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
Jun 29, 2000, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2000, 3:55 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 3:20 PM EDTHail 1Bridgewater, 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 nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-29Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KCAR 291912 COR
SVRCAR
PWMSVRCAR ALL
TTAA00 KCAR DDHHMM COR
MEC003-291955-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
310 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE

* UNTIL 355 PM EDT

* AT 305 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUDNERSTORM WAS NEAR BRIDGEWATER        
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

  THIS STORM WILL AFFECT BRIDGEWATER AND ROBINSONS.

  THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL! STAY AWAY FROM 
  WINDOWS.

JAH/MF

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 Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1030 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2000

SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE WEST
WILL BRING AN INCREASING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO
THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY.

TECHNICAL DISCUSSION: CHALLENGE THIS UPDATE IS HOW WIDESPREAD
WILL CONVECTION BE & ANY SVR?. WRKZFP OUT.

PLENTY OF ACCAS THIS MRNG INDICATING INSTABILITY. WILL CONT
W/PRVS TREND OF SHRA/TSRA THIS AFTN. BEST SHOT FOR NRN/CNTL ME W/VORT
MAX ACRS LAKES ERIE/ONTARIO FCST TO MOVE NE ACRS NRN/CNTL ZNS THIS
AFTN-EARLY EVNG. 12Z CAR RAOB ALREADY UNSTABLE W/CAPES ARND 300 J/KG
& TTS 47. LIS -2. PWS ARND .75". ATMOS EXPECTED TO DESTABLIZE MORE.
MID-UPPER LVLS COOLED OVER PAST 12 HRS & EXPECTED TO COOL DOWN
MORE AS S/WV APCHS. 12Z RUC SNDGS CLOSE TO REALITY & FCSTG THGS TO
DESTABLIZE RAPIDLY THIS AFTN W/CAPES BTWN 500-1000 J/KG. WOULDN/T BE
SURPRISED TO SEE SOME HAIL W/TSRAS. WILL NEED TO MONITOR THGS CLOSELY
THIS AFTN.

FOR TEMPS...BELIEVE PRVS PKG IN GOOD SHAPE. WILL SEE ABOUT
ADJUSTMENTS AFT 10 AM OBS.

COASTAL WATERS...STEADY AS SHE GOES. NO CHGS ANTICIPATED. S WINDS
THIS AFTN 10-15.

.CAR...NONE.

JOE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 1:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1229 PM EST THU JUN 29 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....     

1200 PM    2 MI E  PRESQUE ISLE      ME   1 INCH HAIL
06/29/00   AROOSTOOK

JAH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 11:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook42 min
Jun 29, 12:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.