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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Caribou, ME

June 2, 2023Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2023, 3:04 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 41 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 2, 2023, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2023, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Piscataquis County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2023-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 55 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2023-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:47 AM EDTGale WarningCAR55 hr
Jun 2, 12:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPiscataquis52 min
Jun 2, 12:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPenobscot40 min
Jun 2, 1:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPiscataquis50 min
Jun 2, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPiscataquis45 min
Jun 2, 1:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCARPenobscot, Piscataquis3 hr
Jun 2, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPiscataquis41 min
Jun 2, 2:30 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCARPiscataquis17 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARPenobscot47 min
Jun 2, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPiscataquis45 min
Jun 2, 2:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCARPiscataquis2 hr
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCARPenobscot45 min
Jun 2, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCARSomerset48 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.