Alert archive / Maine / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this wind advisory at Mar 2, 2011, 8:39 AM EST for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2011, 8:39 AM EST (13:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2011, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- 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 13:39 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
586 WWUS71 KCAR 021339 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 839 AM EST WED MAR 2 2011 MEZ029-030-022100- /O.NEW.KCAR.WI.Y.0002.110302T1339Z-110302T2100Z/ COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELLSWORTH...BAR HARBOR...BLUE HILL... EASTPORT...MACHIAS...CHERRYFIELD 839 AM EST WED MAR 2 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...MID MORNING INTO LATE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...LOW IMPACT. WINDS WILL CAUSE A FEW TREE LIMBS TO SNAP WITH SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE. EXPECT SOME DIFFICULTY DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS. BE CAUTIOUS IF DRIVING A HIGH PROFILE VEHICLE. IN CASE OF POWER OUTAGES...MAKE SURE FLASHLIGHTS HAVE WORKING BATTERIES. && $$ VJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:07 AM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 25 hr | |
| Mar 2, 10:07 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:53 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 20 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:56 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 64 min |
Nearby
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.