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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2020, 2:22 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 22 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
- Jun 22, 2020, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2020, 2:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 21, 7:57 PM EDT, 18 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 7:57 PM EDT, 18 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 9:55 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 10 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 50 min | |
| Jun 22, 12:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 28 min | |
| Jun 22, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 36 min | |
| Jun 22, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 24 min | |
| Jun 22, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 47 min |
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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.