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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2013, 1:34 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 4, 2013, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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 17:35 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 334 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 Aug 4, 12:38 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 12:38 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 12:39 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 1239 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 2013 MEZ002-041715- NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK ME- 1239 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY UNTIL 115 PM EDT... AT 1235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WOODLAND TO MAPLETON...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... CARIBOU... PRESQUE ISLE... LIMESTONE... FORT FAIRFIELD... LORING... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY. HASTINGS
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:15 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 115 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 2013 MEZ002-041745- NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK ME- 115 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY UNTIL 145 PM EDT... AT 113 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LIMESTONE TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMESTONE TO EAST OF PRESQUE ISLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS... ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... FORT FAIRFIELD... EASTON... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY. HASTINGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Hancock | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 32 min | |
| Aug 4, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 55 min |
| Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Washington | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Hancock | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Hancock | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Washington | 38 min |
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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.