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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Caribou, ME

July 19, 2008Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2008, 6:19 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 41 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2008, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2008, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Aroostook County, ME

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 19, 6:35 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 N Dyer Brook, ME	TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN ON TOWN LINE ROAD AND ALONG I-95. BASEBALL DUGOUT COVER AT S. AROOSTOOK H.S. DESTROYED. AUTOMOTIVE UTILITY TRAILER PICKED UP AND DISPLACED BY STRONG WIND GUST.
Jul 19, 6:35 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	Dyer Brook, ME
Jul 19, 6:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 N Dyer Brook, ME	TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN ON TOWN LINE ROAD AND ALONG I-95. BASEBALL DUGOUT COVER AT S. AROOSTOOK H.S. DESTROYED. AUTOMOTIVE UTILITY TRAILER PICKED UP AND DISPLACED BY STRONG WIND GUST.
Jul 19, 6:45 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	Dyer Brook, ME

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KCAR 192220
TORCAR
MEC003-192300-
/O.NEW.KCAR.TO.W.0002.080719T2219Z-080719T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
619 PM EDT SAT JUL 19 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU MAINE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT...

* AT 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SMYRNA MILLS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF PATTEN...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 24 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  ISLAND FALLS

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER DIRECTLY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...
DIAL 1-877-633-6772 OR CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN CARIBOU MAINE.

LAT...LON 4589 6809 4611 6844 4613 6844 4633 6843
      4634 6843 4618 6784
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 296DEG 21KT 4622 6837

$$

DUDA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCAR 192242
SVSCAR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
640 PM EDT SAT JUL 19 2008

MEC003-192300-
/O.CON.KCAR.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080719T2300Z/
AROOSTOOK ME-
640 PM EDT SAT JUL 19 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY...

AT 634 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DUDLEY...OR ABOUT
15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PATTEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 24 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ISLAND
FALLS...SMYRNA MILLS...DYER BROOK...OAKFIELD...NEW LIMERICK AND
LUDLOW

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL 
UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER DIRECTLY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...
DIAL 1-877-633-6772 OR CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN CARIBOU MAINE.

LAT...LON 4589 6809 4611 6844 4613 6844 4633 6843
      4634 6843 4618 6784
TIME...MOT...LOC 2240Z 296DEG 21KT 4616 6821

$$

DUDA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	46 min
Jul 19, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	49 min
Jul 19, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis	60 min
Jul 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Washington	64 min
Jul 19, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis	59 min
Jul 19, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset	53 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	26 min
Jul 19, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Washington	20 min
Jul 19, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	56 min
Jul 19, 6:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAR	Washington	25 min
Jul 19, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis	67 min
Jul 19, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	62 min
Jul 19, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Washington	64 min
Jul 19, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	79 min

Nearby

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.