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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2014, 5:53 PM EDT for Hancock County, Penobscot County, Washington 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
- Jul 23, 2014, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2014, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.