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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Caribou, ME

June 8, 2006Hancock County, Washington County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this wind advisory at Jun 8, 2006, 12:36 AM EDT for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It was in force for 82 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2006, 12:36 AM EDT (04:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2006, 1:58 AM EDT
In force
82 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

Counties Hancock County, ME, Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 4.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2006-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2006-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 259 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
353 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jun 7, 10:35 AM EDT, 14 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 10:35 AM EDT, 14 hours 1 minute before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 5:52 AM EDT, 18 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
552 AM EDT WED JUN 7 2006

ANZ050-MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-081000-
COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT ME TO STONINGTON ME OUT 25 NM-
NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET-
NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-
CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT-
INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK-
COASTAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON-
552 AM EDT WED JUN 7 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

RAIN WILL MOVE INTO THE DOWNEAST REGION LATER TODAY AND OVERSPREAD
NORTHERN MAINE TONIGHT. THE RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY ACROSS EASTERN
MAINE TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE LIFTS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED ON THURSDAY TAPERING OFF TO SHOWERS THURSDAY
NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ON
SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY AS ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LIFTS ACROSS
THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE NEEDED
TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY.

HEWITT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 1:58 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningCARHancock, Washington2 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Maine, 2006Every wind advisory in 2006

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.