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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Caribou, ME

October 26, 20064 counties in Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this high wind watch at Oct 26, 2006, 3:16 PM EDT for 4 counties in Maine. It took effect at Oct 27, 2006, 4:28 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2006, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2006, 4:28 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 27, 2006, 3:12 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

Counties Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 410 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2006-10-26Temperature 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2006-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.