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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Caribou, ME

June 4, 2022Penobscot County, Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2022, 4:26 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 15 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: Jun 4, 2022, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2022, 4:41 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

258 
WUUS51 KCAR 042026
SVRCAR
MEC019-021-042115-
/O.NEW.KCAR.SV.W.0021.220604T2026Z-220604T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Caribou ME
426 PM EDT Sat Jun 4 2022

The National Weather Service in Caribou Maine has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Piscataquis County in north central Maine...
  Northern Penobscot County in east central Maine...

* Until 515 PM EDT.

* At 426 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles northeast
  of Telos Lake, or 25 miles north of Mount Katahdin, moving east at
  10 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind 
           damage to trees and power lines.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Baxter State Park around 430 PM EDT.
  Moosehorn Crossing around 515 PM EDT.

Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Grand
Lake Seboeis and Grand Lake Matagamon.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 4635 6907 4639 6869 4638 6864 4612 6865
      4617 6908
TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 271DEG 10KT 4627 6897 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Maloit

1 follow-up statement

609 
WWUS51 KCAR 042041
SVSCAR

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Caribou ME
441 PM EDT Sat Jun 4 2022

MEC019-021-042050-
/O.CAN.KCAR.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-220604T2115Z/
Piscataquis ME-Penobscot ME-
441 PM EDT Sat Jun 4 2022

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PISCATAQUIS AND
NORTHERN PENOBSCOT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, but frequent cloud to ground lightning and heavy downpours
are still likely. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However
heavy rain is still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 4635 6907 4639 6869 4638 6864 4612 6865
      4617 6908
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 271DEG 10KT 4627 6891 

$$

Maloit

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		41 min
Jun 4, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		91 min
Jun 4, 1:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Somerset	3 hr
Jun 4, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Piscataquis, Somerset	26 min
Jun 4, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		40 min
Jun 4, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	36 min
Jun 4, 2:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	82 min
Jun 4, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Piscataquis	50 min
Jun 4, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	47 min
Jun 4, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	41 min
Jun 4, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	78 min
Jun 4, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset	47 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Piscataquis	100 min
Jun 4, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	24 min
Jun 4, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Piscataquis	23 min
Jun 4, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Piscataquis	44 min
Jun 4, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Piscataquis	48 min
Jun 4, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	28 min
Jun 4, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Piscataquis	15 min
Jun 4, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	118 min
Jun 4, 6:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	102 min
Jun 4, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Somerset	23 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.