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High Wind Watch 8, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this high wind watch at Dec 22, 2007, 3:30 PM EST for Hancock County, Penobscot County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Dec 23, 2007, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2007, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 23, 2007, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2007, 5:03 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 394 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
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 22, 3:20 AM EST, 12 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 3:20 AM EST, 12 hours 10 minutes before
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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.