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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this wind advisory at Nov 13, 2008, 3:11 PM EST for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Nov 14, 2008, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 13, 2008, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 14, 2008, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2008, 3:39 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- 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 20:09 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 12:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KCAR 132011 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 311 PM EST THU NOV 13 2008 ...GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED ALONG THE DOWNEAST COAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON... .A WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND COMBINED WITH HIGH PRESSURE TO THE EAST WILL RESULT IN A PERIOD OF GUSTY WINDS FRIDAY AFTERNOON ALONG THE DOWNEAST COAST. MEZ029-030-140400- /O.NEW.KCAR.WI.Y.0021.081114T1600Z-081115T0300Z/ COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELLSWORTH...BAR HARBOR...BLUE HILL... EASTPORT...MACHIAS...CHERRYFIELD 311 PM EST THU NOV 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM EST FRIDAY. SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH FROM MIDDAY FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY EVENING. PREPARE FOR THE LIKELIHOOD OF MINOR WIND DAMAGE TO SHRUBBERY...TREES AND LOOSE OBJECTS. OLDER AND WEAKER TREES MAY BE BLOWN DOWN. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WIND SPEEDS OR ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CAR FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$ MCB
4 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KCAR 140244 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 944 PM EST THU NOV 13 2008 ...GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED ALONG THE DOWNEAST COAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON... .A WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND COMBINED WITH HIGH PRESSURE TO THE EAST WILL RESULT IN A PERIOD OF GUSTY WINDS FRIDAY AFTERNOON ALONG THE DOWNEAST COAST. MEZ029-030-141200- /O.CON.KCAR.WI.Y.0021.081114T1600Z-081115T0300Z/ COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELLSWORTH...BAR HARBOR...BLUE HILL... EASTPORT...MACHIAS...CHERRYFIELD 944 PM EST THU NOV 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM EST FRIDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM EST FRIDAY. SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH FROM MIDDAY FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY EVENING. PREPARE FOR THE LIKELIHOOD OF MINOR WIND DAMAGE TO SHRUBBERY... TREES AND LOOSE OBJECTS. OLDER AND WEAKER TREES MAY BE BLOWN DOWN. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WIND SPEEDS OR ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CAR FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$ VJN
000 WWUS71 KCAR 141204 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 704 AM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 MEZ029-030-141700- /O.EXT.KCAR.WI.Y.0021.081114T1600Z-081114T2100Z/ COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELLSWORTH...BAR HARBOR...BLUE HILL... EASTPORT...MACHIAS...CHERRYFIELD 704 AM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH FROM MIDDAY TODAY THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. PREPARE FOR THE LIKELIHOOD OF MINOR WIND DAMAGE TO SHRUBBERY... TREES AND LOOSE OBJECTS. OLDER AND WEAKER TREES MAY BE BLOWN DOWN. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WIND SPEEDS OR ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CAR FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$ HEWITT
000 WWUS71 KCAR 141607 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 1107 AM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 MEZ029-030-142100- /O.CON.KCAR.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081114T2100Z/ COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELLSWORTH...BAR HARBOR...BLUE HILL... EASTPORT...MACHIAS...CHERRYFIELD 1107 AM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH FROM MIDDAY TODAY THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. PREPARE FOR THE LIKELIHOOD OF MINOR WIND DAMAGE TO SHRUBBERY... TREES AND LOOSE OBJECTS. OLDER AND WEAKER TREES MAY BE BLOWN DOWN. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WIND SPEEDS OR ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CAR FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$ MCB
000 WWUS71 KCAR 142039 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 339 PM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED LATER SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... .STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP LATER SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT...THEN CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN SATURDAY NIGHT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL PERSIST SUNDAY MORNING IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE EAST OF THE REGION SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MEZ029-030-150500- /O.CAN.KCAR.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081114T2100Z/ /O.NEW.KCAR.HW.A.0009.081115T2100Z-081116T1700Z/ COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELLSWORTH...BAR HARBOR...BLUE HILL... EASTPORT...MACHIAS...CHERRYFIELD 339 PM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 ...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH...SATURDAY NIGHT. SIMILAR WINDS ARE THEN EXPECTED TO PERSIST SUNDAY MORNING. A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR STRONGER MAY OCCUR. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. $$ MEZ011-015>017-031-032-150500- /O.NEW.KCAR.HW.A.0009.081115T2100Z-081116T1700Z/ CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT-INTERIOR HANCOCK- CENTRAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLN...HOWLAND...SPRINGFIELD... BANGOR...BREWER...ORONO...OLD TOWN...AMHERST...AURORA...DEDHAM... EASTBROOK...GREAT POND...ORLAND...DEBLOIS...GRAND LAKE STREAM... MEDDYBEMPS...PEMBROKE...PERRY...PRINCETON...DOVER-FOXCROFT... MILO...GUILFORD...DANFORTH...VANCEBORO...TOPSFIELD 339 PM EST FRI NOV 14 2008 ...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 60 MPH...SATURDAY NIGHT. SIMILAR WINDS ARE THEN EXPECTED TO PERSIST SUNDAY MORNING. A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR STRONGER MAY OCCUR. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. $$ NORCROSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 3:57 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 35 hr |
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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.