Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2013, 3:55 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 17, 2013, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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 19:58 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, 7.9 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
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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 Jul 17, 3:34 PM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:34 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 3:51 AM EDT, 12 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 351 AM EDT WED JUL 17 2013 MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-180800- 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- 351 AM EDT WED JUL 17 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. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION LATER TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED MUCH OF NORTHERN AND DOWNEAST MAINE...AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE COAST...IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. ANZ050>052-180800- 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- 351 AM EDT WED JUL 17 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 67 min |
| Jul 17, 5:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 40 min |
| Jul 17, 6:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 17, 6:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 57 min |
| Jul 17, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Washington | 5 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.