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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2008, 5:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Aroostook County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 4:23 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 4:23 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 414 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-291100- 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- 414 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN MAINE...SOUTHEAST MAINE AND WEST CENTRAL MAINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ050>052-291100- COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT ME TO SCHOODIC POINT ME OUT 25 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT ME TO STONINGTON ME OUT 25 NM- INTRACOASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT ME TO STONINGTON ME- 414 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VJN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 28, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 12:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 1:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 88 min |
| Jul 28, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 89 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.