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Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this winter storm watch at Feb 24, 2012, 3:35 AM EST for 4 counties in Maine. It took effect at Feb 24, 2012, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 3:35 AM EST (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2012, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 12:38 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 24, 12:06 AM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 12:06 AM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:26 AM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 59 hr | |
| Feb 24, 3:35 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington | 32 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:38 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 17 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:04 PM EST | Wind Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 25 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.