Alert archive / Maine / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2002, 8:22 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Maine. It was in force for 38 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 3, 2002, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Penobscot County, ME
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:47 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Orono, ME | |
| Jul 3, 8:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Carmel, ME | Several large trees blown down. |
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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCAR 040022 TORCAR MEC019-040100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 821 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MAINE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LINCOLN * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 821 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINCOLN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR SAPONAC AT 830 PM EDT. $$ HEWITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CAR | 97 min | |
| Jul 3, 11:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 89 min |
| Jul 4, 1:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 9:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 11:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 12:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 12:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 22 min |
| Jul 4, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 61 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.