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Special Weather Statement, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this special weather statement at Feb 7, 2016, 7:13 AM EST for Penobscot County, Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2016, 7:13 AM EST (12:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2016, 8:15 AM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Feb 7, 6:00 AM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 7, 6:00 AM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 700 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016 MEZ011-015>017-029-030-032-081200- CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT-INTERIOR HANCOCK- CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK-COASTAL WASHINGTON- NORTHERN WASHINGTON- 700 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL DOWNEAST MAINE...EAST CENTRAL MAINE...EASTERN MAINE AND INTERIOR DOWNEAST MAINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK SOUTH OF THE REGION LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. A FEW TO SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE DURING THIS TIME. THE COLDEST AIR MASS OF THE SEASON IS EXPECTED BY THE END OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. ANZ050>052-081200- COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT, ME TO SCHOODIC POINT, ME OUT 25 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT, ME TO STONINGTON, ME OUT 25 NM- INTRA COASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT, ME TO STONINGTON, ME- 700 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016 ...GALE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. GALE WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MEZ001>006-010-031-081200- NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS- 700 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...FAR NORTHERN MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN MAINE AND WEST CENTRAL MAINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SNOW SQUALL WILL CROSS THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING. BRIEF WHITE-OUT CONDITIONS AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH A QUICK INCH OR TWO OF SNOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK SOUTH OF THE REGION LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. A FEW TO SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE DURING THIS TIME. THE COLDEST AIR MASS OF THE SEASON IS EXPECTED BY THE END OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. CB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 7, 3:25 AM EST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
622 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016
MEZ002-004>006-010-071230-
SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL
PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-
622 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS...SOUTHEASTERN
AROOSTOOK AND NORTH CENTRAL PENOBSCOT COUNTIES...
AT 620 AM EST...A SNOW SQUALL WAS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR
EASTON TO NEAR ROCKWOOD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PRESQUE ISLE...HOULTON...FORT FAIRFIELD...GREENVILLE...PATTEN...MOUNT
KATAHDIN...RIPOGENUS...BAXTER ST PARK...MARS HILL...EASTON...
SHERMAN...ISLAND FALLS...MONSON...BRIDGEWATER...SMYRNA...MOUNT
CHASE...BLANCHARD...OXBOW...DUDLEY TOWNSHIP AND SHERMAN STATION.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 265 AND 296.
* WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SQUALL.
* VISIBILITIES WILL DROP QUICKLY TO LESS THAN A QUARTER MILE IN
THIS SQUALL.
TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED DURING THIS DANGEROUS SNOW SQUALL. RAPID
VISIBILITY REDUCTION AND POTENTIALLY ICY ROADS ARE LIKELY TO LEAD TO
ACCIDENTS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE SQUALL PASSES YOUR
LOCATION. IF TRAVELING PULL OFF TO A SAFE LOCATION.
LAT...LON 4677 6779 4624 6778 4521 6960 4557 6972
4565 6970 4566 6974
TIME...MOT...LOC 1120Z 347DEG 21KT 4668 6782 4564 6966
CBSpecial weather statement, Feb 7, 7:13 AM EST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
713 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016
MEZ002-004>006-010-011-031-071315-
SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL
PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL
PENOBSCOT-
713 AM EST SUN FEB 7 2016
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS
MORNING...
AT 709 AM EST...A SNOW SQUALL WAS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
SOUTH OF BRIDGEWATER TO NEAR MONSON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
...HOULTON...MILLINOCKET...DOVER-FOXCROFT...GREENVILLE...PATTEN...
MOUNT KATAHDIN...BROWNVILLE JUNCTION...RIPOGENUS...MILO... EAST MILLINOCKET...
MARS HILL...MEDWAY...HODGDON...EASTON...SHERMAN... ISLAND FALLS...
MONSON...BRIDGEWATER AND SMYRNA.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 233 AND 303.
* WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SQUALL.
* VISIBILITIES WILL DROP QUICKLY TO LESS THAN A QUARTER MILE IN
THIS SQUALL.
TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED DURING THIS DANGEROUS SNOW SQUALL. RAPID
VISIBILITY REDUCTION AND POTENTIALLY ICY ROADS ARE LIKELY TO LEAD TO
ACCIDENTS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE SQUALL PASSES YOUR
LOCATION. IF TRAVELING PULL OFF TO A SAFE LOCATION.
LAT...LON 4556 6974 4561 6971 4668 6781 4587 6780
4516 6911 4548 6975
TIME...MOT...LOC 1209Z 348DEG 25KT 4632 6778 4536 6952
CBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 4:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis | 113 min |
| Feb 7, 6:02 AM EST | Gale Watch | CAR | 5 hr | |
| Feb 7, 6:22 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Piscataquis | 68 min |
| Feb 7, 8:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 63 min |
| Feb 7, 9:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Washington | 60 min |
| Feb 7, 10:52 AM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 37 hr | |
| Feb 7, 4:13 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington | 51 hr |
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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.