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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Caribou, ME

April 20, 2025Hancock County, Knox County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this red flag warning at Apr 20, 2025, 8:19 AM EDT for Hancock County, Knox County, Maine. It was in force for 10 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
Apr 20, 2025, 8:19 AM EDT (12:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME

Counties Hancock County, ME, Knox County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 19, 4:04 PM EDT, 16 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 4:04 PM EDT, 16 hours 15 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.