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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Caribou, ME

July 19, 2005Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2005, 6:36 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 54 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 19, 2005, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
54 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), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 334 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2005-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 820 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2005-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARAroostook65 min
Jul 19, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARSomerset27 min
Jul 19, 3:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARAroostook24 min
Jul 19, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARAroostook55 min
Jul 19, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPiscataquis62 min
Jul 19, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARAroostook59 min
Jul 19, 5:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARAroostook64 min
Jul 19, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPenobscot63 min
Jul 19, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAR60 min
Jul 19, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAR61 min
Jul 19, 6:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPenobscot57 min
Jul 19, 7:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAR62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.