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Special Weather Statement, NWS Caribou, ME

July 16, 2021Hancock County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2021, 1:08 PM EDT for Hancock County, Maine. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 16, 2021, 1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME

County Hancock County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Jul 15, 8:50 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Washington	12 hr
Jul 16, 12:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Waldo	54 min
Jul 16, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Hancock, Washington	60 min
Jul 16, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Hancock	67 min
Jul 16, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CAR		55 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.