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Coastal Flood Statement 2, NWS Caribou, ME

February 20, 2019Washington County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this coastal flood statement at Feb 20, 2019, 3:36 PM EST for Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Feb 21, 2019, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 20, 2019, 3:36 PM EST (20:36 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 21, 2019, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 21, 2019, 1:00 PM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

County Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 414 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2019-02-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2019-02-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 20, 3:38 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCARAroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington37 hr
Feb 20, 3:00 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryCAR43 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.