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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Caribou, ME

July 8, 2020Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2020, 4:01 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 44 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
Jul 8, 2020, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2020, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Piscataquis County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 8, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 7, 6:39 PM EDT, 21 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 6:39 PM EDT, 21 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 3:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAR40 min
Jul 8, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPiscataquis, Somerset37 min
Jul 8, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARSomerset43 min
Jul 8, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCAR50 min
Jul 8, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot, Piscataquis44 min
Jul 8, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCAR53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.