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Coastal Flood Statement 9, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this coastal flood statement at May 8, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at May 8, 2020, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 8, 2020, 10:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 9, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Hancock County, ME, Washington County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 380 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at May 8, 12:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 12:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:26 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington | 42 hr |
| May 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Gale Warning | CAR | 45 hr | |
| May 8, 3:51 PM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Washington | 33 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Statements in Maine, 2020Every coastal flood statement in 2020
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.