Alert archive / Maine / Dense Fog Advisories in 2018
Dense Fog Advisory 21, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this dense fog advisory at Sep 21, 2018, 8:03 AM EDT for Aroostook County, Penobscot County, Maine. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2018, 8:03 AM EDT (12:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2018, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Penobscot County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory 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 dense fog advisory went out at Sep 20, 6:28 PM EDT, 13 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 6:28 PM EDT, 13 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 20, 2:32 PM EDT, 17 hours 31 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Caribou ME 232 PM EDT Thu Sep 20 2018 MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-211845- 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- 232 PM EDT Thu Sep 20 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM FRIDAY TO 8 AM EDT SATURDAY... 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...This Afternoon and Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. ANZ050>052-211845- 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- 232 PM EDT Thu Sep 20 2018 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM FRIDAY TO 8 AM EDT SATURDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic Coastal Waters. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 11:59 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 8 hr |
Nearby
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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.