1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 23, 9:30 AM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
PWMAFDCAR AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME ISSUED BY NWS GRAY ME 1030 AM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002 .UPDATED...COLD FRONT IS RIGHT ON THE DOORSTEP OF EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MAINE AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SW THIS AFTERNOON. WILL TRIM BACK POPS IN NORTHERN SPLIT WITH SHOWERS AND TSTMS COMING TO AN END IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WILL GO WITH CATEGORICAL POPS/TSTMS ELSEWHERE. THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS IS LIMITED THIS AFTERNOON...BUT CANNOT RULE OUT A FEW STRONGER CELLS PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. WILL ALSO RAISE HIGH TEMPS DOWNEAST BASED ON OBS. BGR COULD EASILY SEE 90. SYNOPSIS... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION AND OFF THE COAST BY EARLY THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT WITH CLEARING TO FOLLOW IN NORTHERN AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND DOWNEAST THIS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FROM CANADA WITH A COOLER AND LESS HUMID AIR MASS TONIGHT AND REMAIN THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. DISCUSSION... LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS (06Z) INDICATING STRONG COLD FRONT CURRENTLY APPROACHING THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY. MSAS ISALLOBARIC ANALYSIS INDICATING AREA OF 3 TO 4 MB PRES RISES ACROSS SOUTHWEST QUEBEC PROVINCE ALONG WITH PROGRESSIVE UPPER TROUGH WILL HELP PUSH FRONT EASTWARD TODAY. ETA/AVN/NGM ALL HAD A GOOD HANDLE ON FRONTAL POSITION AT 06Z AND ARE IN CLOSE AGREEMENT IN MOVING THE FRONT OFF THE COAST BY EARLY THIS EVENING. FORECAST CONCERN ACROSS THE CWFA WILL BE THE STRENGTH OF THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP IN ADVANCE OF FROPA TODAY. ETA BUFKIT SOUNDINGS INDICATE CAPE VALUES UP TO 1000 J/KG WITH LIS LOWERING TO ABOUT MINUS 3 ACROSS THE CWFA AROUND MIDDAY. MUCH OF THE LLVL/UPPER JET ENERGY TO SUPPORT SIGNIFICANT SHEAR ALOFT MOVES WELL TO THE NORTH AND EAST LENDING LITTLE SUPPORT FOR SEVERE ACTIVITY ACROSS THE CWFA TODAY. WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY/CATEGORICAL CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WORDING ACROSS THE CWFA BUT NOT ENHANCE TO WORDING WITH LIMITED SUPPORT ALOFT. WITH FRONT MOVING OFF THE COAST EXPECT MUCH COOLER AND DRIER AIR TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN TONIGHT. BASED ON TEMPERATURES UPSTREAM UNDER THE APPROACHING RIDGE WILL GO BELOW FWC/MAV TEMP GUIDANCE FOR MINS (INSPITE OF THE MIXING/WINDS OCCURRING) TONIGHT AND AGAIN UNDER CLEAR AND RELATIVELY CALM CONDITIONS FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS JUST NORTH OF THE REGION KEEPING THE CWFA UNDER PLEASANT AND DRY CONDITIONS INTO THE END OF THE WEEK. COASTAL WATERS...WILL CONTINUE SCA. TIGHT GRADIENT PERSISTS AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...WITH CURRENT OBS AND SEAS SUPPORTING SCA CRITERIA. EXPECT SCAS TO CONTINUE INTO EARLY TONIGHT BEFORE WINDS/SEAS GO BELOW CRITERIA LATER TONIGHT. .CAR...SCA. APFFEL
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1000 AM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0920 PM DAAQUAM ME NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
07/22/02 AROOSTOOK
0930 PM 10 W CLAYTON LAKE ME NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
07/22/02 PISCATAQUIS
APFFELPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1000 AM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0920 PM DAAQUAM ME NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
07/22/02 AROOSTOOK
0930 PM 10 W CLAYTON LAKE ME NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
07/22/02 AROOSTOOK
APFFELThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado briefly snapped off trees at tree top level before lifitng back into the cloud.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maine in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Maine, 2002Warnings in Maine, July 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5306910.