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Snow Squall Warning 3, NWS Caribou, ME

February 8, 2019Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this snow squall warning at Feb 8, 2019, 8:34 PM EST for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 8, 2019, 8:34 PM EST (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Feb 8, 2019, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow squall warning 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 snow squall warning went out at Feb 8, 5:01 PM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 5:01 PM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 8, 10:08 AM EST, 10 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 8, 5:57 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 8, 9:07 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	CAR	Aroostook	38 min
Feb 8, 11:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	55 min
Feb 9, 5:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	77 min
Feb 9, 6:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	88 min
Feb 9, 8:03 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis	117 min

Nearby

Snow Squall Warnings in Maine, 2019 Every snow squall warning in 2019

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.