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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Aroostook County, Maine, 2015

47 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Aroostook County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
47
Busiest month
August22 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 27, 20158 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

22 of 47 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Aroostook County in 2015 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 39 of 53 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 14 minutes after it went out.

Aroostook County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings472253%5374%14 min

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Caribou, ME: severe thunderstorm warnings793556%11275%20 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 19, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR46 min
May 27, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR47 min
May 27, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR44 min
May 27, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR50 min
May 27, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR39 min
May 27, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR41 min
May 27, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR28 min
May 27, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR35 min
May 27, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR46 min
May 28, 12:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR35 min
May 28, 12:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR61 min
May 28, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR38 min
May 28, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR63 min
May 28, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR43 min
May 30, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR22 min
Jun 11, 3:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR43 min
Jun 11, 5:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR50 min
Jun 23, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR44 min
Jul 27, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR38 min
Jul 27, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR51 min
Aug 1, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR50 min
Aug 1, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR65 min
Aug 1, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR39 min
Aug 1, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR51 min
Aug 1, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR41 min
Aug 1, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR59 min
Aug 3, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR48 min
Aug 3, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR51 min
Aug 3, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR42 min
Aug 3, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR39 min
Aug 3, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR40 min
Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR38 min
Aug 3, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR66 min
Aug 3, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR64 min
Aug 3, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR48 min
Aug 4, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR64 min
Aug 4, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR34 min
Aug 4, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR52 min
Aug 4, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR55 min
Aug 4, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR49 min
Aug 4, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR63 min
Aug 4, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR46 min
Sep 9, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR40 min
Sep 9, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR47 min
Sep 9, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR49 min
Sep 9, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR61 min
Sep 9, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR40 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.