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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this winter storm watch at Feb 11, 2016, 3:18 PM EST for Hancock County, Penobscot County, Maine. It took effect at Feb 13, 2016, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2016, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2016, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2016, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 11, 3:07 PM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 3:07 PM EST, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2:53 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 33 hr | |
| Feb 11, 2:53 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | CAR | 33 hr | |
| Feb 11, 3:18 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 17 hr |
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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.