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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Caribou, ME

July 3, 2002Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2002, 7:34 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2002, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Piscataquis County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 2002-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1609 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1609 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCAR 032334
SVRCAR
MEC021-040000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
734 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PISCATAQUIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MAINE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DOVER-FOXCROFT...BROWNVILLE JUNCTION

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 734 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SEBEC...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  BROWNVILLE JUNCTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SEBEC...ATKINSON...738 PM EDT   
  MILO AT 745 PM EDT
  BROWNVILLE JUNCTION AT 750 PM EDT
  LAKE VIEW AT 800 PM EDT

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. 
$$

HEWITT
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot30 min
Jul 3, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot, Piscataquis32 min
Jul 3, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot32 min
Jul 3, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot29 min
Jul 3, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.