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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this wind advisory at Nov 7, 2023, 2:52 PM EST for 4 counties in Maine. It took effect at Nov 8, 2023, 2:58 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 2023, 2:52 PM EST (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 8, 2023, 2:58 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2023, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 638 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 891 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2:41 PM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 28 hr | |
| Nov 7, 2:41 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 38 hr |
Nearby
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.