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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2022, 4:52 PM EDT for 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2022, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2022, 5:07 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Piscataquis County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 3, 6:50 PM EDT, 22 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:50 PM EDT, 22 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>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, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 15 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, 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 |
Nearby
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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.