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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2022, 4:12 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 48 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
- May 21, 2022, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Aroostook County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 334 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
- 408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 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 May 21, 12:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 12:47 PM EDT, 3 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 21, 6:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 57 min | |
| May 21, 7:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 94 min | |
| May 21, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 38 min | |
| May 21, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 47 min |
| May 21, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 25 min |
| May 21, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 29 min | |
| May 21, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 35 min | |
| May 21, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 23 min |
| May 21, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 37 min | |
| May 21, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 27 min |
| May 21, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 25 min |
| May 21, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 36 min | |
| May 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 38 min |
| May 21, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | 50 min | |
| May 21, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Piscataquis | 42 min |
| May 21, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 36 min |
| May 21, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 45 min |
| May 21, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Piscataquis | 33 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.