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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Caribou, ME

August 3, 2004Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2004, 2:55 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2004, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2004, 3:25 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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 2004-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 150 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 2004-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 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
150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCAR 031858
FFWCAR
MEC003-031925-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
255 PM EDT TUE AUG 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU MAINE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PORTAGE...STOCKHOLM

* UNTIL 325 PM EDT

* AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 
DAAQUAM ON THE WESTERN QUEBEC...MAINE BORDER TO THE LAKES REGION 
NORTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY AT 300 PM EDT
  RURAL EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY AT 310 PM EDT

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

LAT...LON 4718 6773 4565 6829 4556 6784 4710 6727

$$

MAT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.