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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2002, 12:38 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 22 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 4, 2002, 12:38 PM EDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2002, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aroostook County, ME
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 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
- 363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCAR 041638 TORCAR MEC003-041700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 1209 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PRESQUE ISLE...FORT FAIRFIELD... CARIBOU * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1203 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR MAINE. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN THIS AREA. $$ LAT...LON 4662 6869 4630 6818 4681 6773 4701 6805 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 38 min |
| 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, 12:58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.