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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Caribou, ME
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.
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
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 3:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 13 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:58 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 5 hr |
| Nov 25, 3:41 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 18 hr |
| Nov 25, 3:42 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 21 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.