Alert archive / Maine / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2005, 7:05 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Maine. It was in force for 32 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 1, 2005, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2005, 7:37 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Penobscot County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCAR 012305 TORCAR MEC019-012330- /O.NEW.KCAR.TO.W.0003.050801T2305Z-050801T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 705 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU MAINE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MAINE * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 658 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WINN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEE AND WINN BY 715 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4557 6835 4542 6849 4532 6828 4546 6815 $$ MIGNONE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS51 KCAR 012322 SVSCAR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 722 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005 MEC019-012330- /O.CON.KCAR.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050801T2330Z/ PENOBSCOT ME- 722 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY... AT 707 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WINN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR LEE BY 730 PM. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4557 6835 4541 6852 4526 6826 4543 6807 $$
000 WWUS51 KCAR 012337 SVSCAR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 737 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005 MEC019-012347- /O.EXP.KCAR.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050801T2330Z/ PENOBSCOT ME- 737 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 730 PM EDT... LAT...LON 4557 6835 4541 6852 4526 6826 4543 6807 $$ MIGNONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 81 min |
| Aug 1, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 42 min |
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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.