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Special Weather Statement, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 6:47 PM EDT. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 4, 2016, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 Aug 4, 4:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 4:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 1024 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2016 MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-051430- NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT- INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK- COASTAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON- 1024 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR COASTAL DOWNEAST MAINE...EAST CENTRAL MAINE...EASTERN MAINE...FAR NORTHERN MAINE...INTERIOR DOWNEAST MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN MAINE AND WEST CENTRAL MAINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY AND AGAIN FOR SUNDAY. ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE TIMING OF THE STORMS...THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR SOME STRONGER STORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AREAS THIS WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. ANZ050>052-051430- 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- 1024 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 4:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
406 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2016
MEZ002-006-042100-
SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-
406 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2016
...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL AROOSTOOK
COUNTY...
AT 405 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED FROM BRIDGEWATER SOUTH
TO AMITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOULTON...HODGDON...BRIDGEWATER...SMYRNA...AMITY...DUDLEY TOWNSHIP...
CARY PLANTATION...LITTLETON...LINNEUS...MONTICELLO...OAKFIELD...
NEW LIMERICK...LUDLOW...CARY...NORTH AMITY...DUDLEY...
NUMBER NINE MOUNTAIN AND FORKSTOWN.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN MILE MAKERS 288 AND 304.
US HIGHWAY 1 BETWEEN NORTH AMITY AND BRIDGEWATER.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY CAN RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN CARIBOU MAINE.
LAT...LON 4588 6781 4586 6780 4592 6814 4645 6809
4646 6778 4594 6778 4592 6775
TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 275DEG 26KT 4608 6794
KREDENSORSpecial weather statement, Aug 4, 6:03 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 54 min | |
| Aug 4, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 42 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.