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High Wind Warning 5, NWS Caribou, ME

December 10, 20246 counties in Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this high wind warning at Dec 10, 2024, 3:25 PM EST for 6 counties in Maine. It took effect at Dec 11, 2024, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 10, 2024, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 11, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 12, 2024, 3:15 AM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

Counties Aroostook County, ME, Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 2024-12-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2024-12-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 551 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
551 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
572 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
Dec 10, 3:25 PM ESTFlood WatchCARAroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington39 hr
Dec 10, 3:25 PM ESTWind AdvisoryCARAroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington3 hr
Dec 10, 3:30 PM ESTStorm WarningCAR37 hr

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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.