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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2013, 6:48 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Washington County, Maine. It was in force for 57 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
- Sep 11, 2013, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2013, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Penobscot County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 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 Sep 11, 6:22 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 6:22 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 259 PM EDT WED SEP 11 2013 MEZ001>006-010-011-015-031-121900- NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT- SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS- 259 PM EDT WED SEP 11 2013 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 521 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR ROTATION. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO WILL RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MEZ016-017-032-121900- INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-NORTHERN WASHINGTON- 259 PM EDT WED SEP 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MAINE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL WITH STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR ROTATION. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO WILL RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MEZ029-030-121900- COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- 259 PM EDT WED SEP 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MAINE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ050>052-121900- 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- 259 PM EDT WED SEP 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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 IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HEWITT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 11, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 7:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 35 min |
| Sep 11, 8:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 41 min |
| Sep 11, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 50 min |
| Sep 11, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 26 min |
| Sep 11, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 33 min |
| Sep 11, 4:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 52 min |
| Sep 11, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 23 min |
| Sep 11, 6:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Washington | 63 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.