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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2013, 5:03 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 1, 2013, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2013, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 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 21:03 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
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Jun 1, 3:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 342 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2013 MEZ001>006-021945- NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- 342 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2013 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN 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. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MEZ010-011-015>017-029>032-021945- CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT- INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK- COASTAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON- 342 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE AND SOUTHEAST MAINE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE REGION THROUGH THE EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE DUE THE HEAVY RAINFALL. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FORECAST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WATCHES/WARNINGS AS THIS EVENT UNFOLDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY ANY REPORTS OF HAIL, FLOODING OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU. HEWITT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 1, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:14 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 40 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Hancock | 25 min |
| Jun 1, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.