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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2013, 3:11 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 34 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2013, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2013, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Aroostook County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sse Saint Agatha, ME | TREES DOWN ALONG ROUTE 162 IN SINCLAIR. TIME IS ESTIMATED. |
| Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Soldier Pond, ME | TREES DOWN ON SLY BROOK ROAD. TIME IS ESTIMATED. |
| Jun 2, 3:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 S Guerette, ME | TREES DOWN IN THE CROSS LAKE AREA. SOME CABINS IN THE AREA ARE WITHOUT POWER. THE TIME IS ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR DATA. |
| Jun 2, 3:28 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 2 S Guerette, ME | |
| Jun 2, 3:40 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Eagle Lake, ME | A PICTURE OF A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS RECEIVED VIA FACEBOOK. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 11:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566 WFUS51 KCAR 021911 TORCAR MEC003-021945- /O.NEW.KCAR.TO.W.0002.130602T1911Z-130602T1945Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 311 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU MAINE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN NORTHERN MAINE... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EAGLE LAKE... * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 308 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EAGLE LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DAIGLE...GUERETTE AND SAINT AGATHA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN MAINE. && LAT...LON 4732 6818 4710 6802 4699 6861 4712 6870 TIME...MOT...LOC 1911Z 246DEG 50KT 4708 6850 $$ FITZSIMMONS
1 follow-up statement
448 WWUS51 KCAR 021942 SVSCAR SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 342 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2013 MEC003-021951- /O.EXP.KCAR.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130602T1945Z/ AROOSTOOK ME- 342 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2013 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL AROOSTOOK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 345 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN MAINE. LAT...LON 4732 6818 4710 6802 4699 6861 4712 6870 TIME...MOT...LOC 1941Z 246DEG 50KT 4724 6794 $$ FITZSIMMONS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Piscataquis | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 10:26 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 29 hr | |
| Jun 2, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 2:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 7:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.