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Special Weather Statement, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2018, 4:22 PM EDT. It was in force for 23 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 7, 2018, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2018, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 6, 6:15 PM EDT, 22 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:15 PM EDT, 22 hours 7 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 |
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| Aug 7, 3:26 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 15 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 51 min | |
| Aug 7, 6:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 6:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 7:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 8:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Penobscot | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 40 min | |
| Aug 7, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Waldo | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Hancock | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Washington | 22 min |
| Aug 7, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Waldo | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 28 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.