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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Caribou, ME

October 23, 2009Hancock County, Washington County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this high wind watch at Oct 23, 2009, 4:30 AM EDT for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Oct 24, 2009, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 23, 2009, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 24, 2009, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 23, 2009, 4:08 PM EDT
In force
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 08:33 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 22, 10:24 PM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 22, 10:24 PM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 22, 10:39 PM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 3:11 AM EDT	Gale Warning	CAR		51 hr
Oct 23, 3:10 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington	21 hr
Oct 23, 4:08 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	CAR	Hancock, Washington	38 hr
Oct 23, 4:08 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Washington	36 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.