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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this winter storm warning at Dec 8, 2009, 3:33 PM EST for 6 counties in Maine. It took effect at Dec 9, 2009, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 17 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
- Dec 8, 2009, 3:33 PM EST (20:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 9, 2009, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2009, 2:46 AM EST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 Dec 8, 3:13 PM EST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 3:13 PM EST, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 3:42 AM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 10 hr | |
| Dec 8, 5:01 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington | 11 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:08 PM EST | Storm Warning | CAR | 34 hr | |
| Dec 8, 2:58 PM EST | High Wind Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 33 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:33 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 28 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.