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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Caribou, ME

January 23, 2015Hancock County, Penobscot County, Washington County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this winter storm warning at Jan 23, 2015, 3:12 PM EST for Hancock County, Penobscot County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Jan 24, 2015, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 23, 2015, 3:12 PM EST (20:12 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2015, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 25, 2015, 1:40 AM EST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

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 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2015-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2015-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 4:22 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchCARHancock, Penobscot, Washington11 hr
Jan 23, 4:33 AM ESTGale WatchCAR10 hr
Jan 23, 2:59 PM ESTGale WarningCAR49 hr
Jan 23, 3:12 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCARAroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington34 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Maine, 2015Every winter storm warning in 2015

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.