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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Caribou, ME

June 30, 2003Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2003, 3:11 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 34 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
Jun 30, 2003, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Aroostook County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 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 2003-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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 2003-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 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 
WFUS51 KCAR 301911
TORCAR
MEC003-301945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
310 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 306 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BENEDICTA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  PATTEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HAYNESVILLE BY 345 PM EDT

HAIL UP TO 2.00 INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE
TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

$$ 

LAT...LON 4588 6855 4571 6846 4584 6788 4605 6800

COBB
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot46 min
Jun 30, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook36 min
Jun 30, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook, Washington46 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Maine, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.