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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Caribou, ME

October 7, 2013Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2013, 11:38 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 52 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: Oct 7, 2013, 11:38 PM EDT (03:38 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2013, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

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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 Oct 7, 6:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 6:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 7, 3:08 PM EDT, 8 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 7, 7:36 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis	45 min
Oct 7, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis	48 min
Oct 7, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis	42 min
Oct 7, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis	28 min
Oct 7, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	56 min
Oct 7, 11:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	63 min
Oct 8, 2:04 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		5 hr
Oct 8, 7:06 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		8 hr
Oct 8, 3:07 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Washington	16 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2013 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.