Alert archive / Maine / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this wind advisory at Jan 29, 2012, 11:00 AM EST for 4 counties in Maine. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2012, 11:00 AM EST (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2012, 2:02 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
904 WWUS71 KCAR 291600 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 1100 AM EST SUN JAN 29 2012 MEZ001>006-291900- /O.NEW.KCAR.WI.Y.0003.120129T1600Z-120129T1900Z/ NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLAGASH...CLAYTON LAKE...MADAWASKA... FORT KENT...FRENCHVILLE...PRESQUE ISLE...CARIBOU...VAN BUREN... MARS HILL...BAKER LAKE...BILLY-JACK DEPOT...BAXTER ST PARK... CHAMBERLAIN LAKE...CHURCHILL DAM...MOUNT KATAHDIN...MILLINOCKET... EAST MILLINOCKET...PATTEN...MEDWAY...HOULTON...HODGDON... SHERMAN...SMYRNA MILLS 1100 AM EST SUN JAN 29 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...MID MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...LOW IMPACT. WINDS WILL CAUSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. 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. && $$ HILL
1 follow-up statement
703 WWUS71 KCAR 291902 NPWCAR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 202 PM EST SUN JAN 29 2012 MEZ001>006-292015- /O.CAN.KCAR.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120129T1900Z/ NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLAGASH...CLAYTON LAKE...MADAWASKA... FORT KENT...FRENCHVILLE...PRESQUE ISLE...CARIBOU...VAN BUREN... MARS HILL...BAKER LAKE...BILLY-JACK DEPOT...BAXTER ST PARK... CHAMBERLAIN LAKE...CHURCHILL DAM...MOUNT KATAHDIN...MILLINOCKET... EAST MILLINOCKET...PATTEN...MEDWAY...HOULTON...HODGDON... SHERMAN...SMYRNA MILLS 202 PM EST SUN JAN 29 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL STILL CONTINUE TO GUST TO 30 MPH...HOWEVER PERIOD OF STRONGEST WIND GUSTS IS DIMINISHING. DRIVERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION WITH BLOWING SNOW AND DRIFTING SNOW. $$ HILL
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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.