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Special Weather Statement, NWS Caribou, ME

March 14, 2021Hancock County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this special weather statement at Mar 14, 2021, 5:46 PM EDT for Hancock County, Maine. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2021, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2021, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME

County Hancock County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 371 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 3:41 AM EDT	Wind Chill Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset	32 hr
Mar 14, 3:43 AM EDT	Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory	CAR		55 hr
Mar 14, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Penobscot	58 min
Mar 14, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	58 min
Mar 14, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Penobscot, Washington	57 min
Mar 14, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Penobscot, Washington	60 min
Mar 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Snow Squall Warning	CAR	Washington	49 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maine, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.