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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Caribou, ME

July 8, 2003Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2003, 6:56 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
Jul 8, 2003, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2003, 7:30 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, 10.9 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 2003-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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.

107 
WFUS51 KCAR 082256
TORCAR
MEC003-082330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
656 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 652 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAPLETON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  EAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MAPLETON...WASHBURN...CHAPMAN BY 705 PM EDT
  PRESQUE ISLE BY 720 PM EDT
  FORT FAIRFIELD...EASTON BY 730 PM EDT

THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
TORNADO. EVACUATE M0BILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A
STURDY BUILDING MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO.

$$

LAT...LON 4684 6840 4665 6842 4656 6783 4679 6780

NOUHAN
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook40 min
Jul 8, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook56 min
Jul 8, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook61 min
Jul 8, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARAroostook46 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.