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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Caribou, ME

May 25, 2010Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2010, 3:09 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2010, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2010, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 2:55 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:55 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 2:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
204 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2010

MEZ001>006-010-011-031-032-261815-
NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET-
NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-
CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-
NORTHERN WASHINGTON-
204 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2010

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 221 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...NORTH
CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN MAINE...SOUTHEAST MAINE AND WEST CENTRAL
MAINE.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MEZ015>017-029-030-261815-
SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT-INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-
COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON-
204 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2010

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 221 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE AND
SOUTHEAST MAINE.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset	38 min
May 25, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset	65 min
May 25, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	65 min
May 25, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Washington	61 min
May 25, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Washington	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.