Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 8:57 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 63 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 16, 2001, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aroostook County, ME
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Estcourt Station, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1395 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCAR 170116 SVRCAR MEC003-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 857 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 857 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ESCOURT STATION TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ESTCOURT STATION. THIS LINE OF STORMS WERE SLOWLY DRIFTING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORMS THROUGH 930 PM EDT... INCLUDE ESCOURT STATION. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. $$ LAT...LON 4748 6922 4723 6900 4697 6933 4704 6963 CORRECTED FOR ORIENTATION AND DISTANCE OF THE LINE NOUHAN NNNN
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 16, 3:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 300 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS QUEBEC PROVINCE TONIGHT. THIS COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH WESTERN MAINE LATE TONIGHT AND THEN SLOWLY CROSS THE STATE SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL OVERSPREAD THE STATE ON MONDAY. DISCUSSION... SAT PIX SHOW SOME CONVECTIVE BUILDUPS OVER THE WRN MTNS ATTM AS WEAK INITIAL SHORT WAVE LIFTS NEWRD ACROSS NWRN NEW ENGLAND. THIS FEATURE CLIPS NRN AREAS LATE TONIGHT SO WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE N TONIGHT. FOR SUN...FRONT SLOWLY APPROACHES AND CROSSES THE CWA. FRONT WILL BE WEAKENING AS IT PUSHES EWRD INTO STRONG RIDGE JUST E OF THE AREA. AS A RESULT...FEEL CAT POPS FOR SUN MAY BE A LITTLE TOO HIGH AND WILL LOWER JUST A BIT. FRONT SLOWLY EXITS CWA SUN NIGHT AND WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS GOING FOR SRN/SERN AREAS THRU MIDNIGHT WHILE NWRN AREAS EXPECTED TO CLEAR OUT ERLY SUN EVE... REMNANTS OF ALLISON COULD STILL BE A FACTOR ACROSS OUR DOWNEAST AREAS SUN NIGHT AND THIS WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY BUT FOR NOW HAVE FOLLOWED THE LESS PESSIMISTIC SOLN OF THE ETA AFTER COORD W/ GYX... NICE WX RETURNS FOR MON AS COOLER AND DRIER AIR OVERSPREADS THE CWA BEHIND TOMORROW/S SYSTEM. IN THE EXTENDED...NEXT FRONT EXPECTED TO APPROACH LATE TUE AND CROSS THE AREA BY ERLY WED. WARM TEMPS RETURN ON TUE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT AND HAVE BUMPED UP TEMPS ACCORDINGLY. AVN DEVELOPS A SIGNIFICANT WAVE ALONG THIS FRONT AND TRACKS IT EWRD ACROSS THE CWA LATER WED THRU ERLY THU. CANADIAN ONLY HINTS AT THIS SCENARIO W/ THE OLDER EURO DEPICTING A STRONG COLD TO CROSS THE REGION WED W/ NO SFC WAVE TO FOLLOW...JUST MUCH COOLER AIR. ALL SOLNS SUPPORT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND WED BUT AVN APPEARS OVERDONE IN REFERENCE TO SFC LOW DEVELOPMENT WHILE THE EURO APPEARS TO BE TOO STRONG W/ THE CAA TO FOLLOW THE FRONT. WILL MENTION CHANCE SHOWERS ALL AREAS W/ COOLER TEMPS FOR WED/THU...BUT NOT AS DRASTIC AS INDICATED BY THE EURO... COASTAL WATERS...PESKY FOG/STRATUS LURKING JUST OFF OUR DOWNEAST COAST AND EXPECT THIS TO BE A FACTOR FOR OUR WATERS OVERNIGHT W/ LITTLE CHANGE IN WIND/AIRMASS CONDS. OTHERWISE...WINDS/SEAS EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO JUST BLO SCA ON SUN AS FRONT APPROACHES. .CAR...NONE. KHW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 9:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
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.