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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2015, 4:57 PM EDT for Washington County, Maine. It was in force for 48 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 1, 2015, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2015, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 1, 4:00 PM EDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 4:00 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 12:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 1242 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015 MEZ001-002-004>006-011715- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK- 1242 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015 ...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL AROOSTOOK...NORTHEASTERN PISCATAQUIS AND NORTH CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTIES... AT 1241 PM EDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEAR RUSSEL CROSSING...OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRESQUE ISLE...CARIBOU...FORT FAIRFIELD...LIMESTONE...PORTAGE... MAPLETON...WASHBURN...MARS HILL...ASHLAND...EASTON...WOODLAND... BRIDGEWATER...PORTAGE LAKE...MASARDIS...OXBOW...NASHVILLE PLANTATION...MOOSEHORN CROSSING...LORING...RUSSEL CROSSING AND SCOPAN. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 4636 6778 4626 6902 4699 6857 4706 6779 TIME...MOT...LOC 1641Z 249DEG 40KT 4659 6866 BLOOMER
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 1, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 50 min |
| Aug 1, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 35 min |
| Aug 1, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Washington | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CAR | 65 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CAR | 55 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.