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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2013, 2:31 PM EDT for Washington County, Maine. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2013, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2013, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 25, 9:56 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 9:56 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 3:43 AM EDT, 10 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 343 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-260745- NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT- INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK- COASTAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON- 343 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN MAINE...SOUTHEAST MAINE AND WEST CENTRAL MAINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS DETERMINED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY FOR ALL OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MAINE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. .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. ANZ050>052-260745- COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT ME TO SCHOODIC POINT ME OUT 25 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT ME TO STONINGTON ME OUT 25 NM- INTRACOASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT ME TO STONINGTON ME- 343 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 40 min |
| Jun 25, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 40 min |
| Jun 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.