Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2007, 5:54 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Maine. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 27, 2007, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2007, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCAR 272154 SVRCAR MEC019-272230- /O.NEW.KCAR.SV.W.0021.070627T2154Z-070627T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 554 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU MAINE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MAINE... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BANGOR... * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BREWER...OR ABOUT NEAR BANGOR...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLIFTON BY 600 PM EDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR MAINE. LAT...LON 4486 6881 4472 6881 4477 6846 4488 6848 $$ FITZSIMMONS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS51 KCAR 272210 SVSCAR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 610 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2007 MEC019-272230- /O.CON.KCAR.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070627T2230Z/ PENOBSCOT ME- 610 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY... AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLIFTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF BANGOR...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLIFTON BY 620 PM EDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR MAINE. LAT...LON 4487 6865 4474 6867 4477 6846 4488 6848 $$ FITZSIMMONS
000 WWUS51 KCAR 272225 SVSCAR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 625 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2007 MEC019-272235- /O.EXP.KCAR.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070627T2230Z/ PENOBSCOT ME- 625 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTY EXPIRES AT 630 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR MAINE. LAT...LON 4487 6865 4474 6867 4477 6846 4488 6848 $$ FITZSIMMONS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CAR | 65 min | |
| Jun 27, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Somerset | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.