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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Caribou, ME

November 25, 2008Piscataquis County, Somerset County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this winter storm warning at Nov 25, 2008, 3:42 PM EST for Piscataquis County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 25, 2008, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
Expired
Nov 26, 2008, 4:08 AM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

Counties Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 446 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2008-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2008-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Nov 25, 10:05 AM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 10:05 AM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 25, 3:56 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCARPiscataquis, Somerset13 hr
Nov 25, 10:58 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCARHancock, Washington5 hr
Nov 25, 3:41 PM ESTCoastal Flood WarningCARHancock, Washington18 hr
Nov 25, 3:42 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCARAroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis21 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2008Every winter storm warning in 2008

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.