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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Caribou, ME

October 11, 2006Hancock County, Washington County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this high wind watch at Oct 11, 2006, 10:20 AM EDT for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Oct 12, 2006, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 11, 2006, 10:20 AM EDT (14:20 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 12, 2006, 1:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 11, 2006, 3:35 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME

Counties Hancock County, ME, Washington County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Oct 11, 10:12 AM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 10:12 AM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 11, 3:46 AM EDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 3:35 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	CAR	Hancock, Washington	20 hr

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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.