NWS Caribou MESV.W 0034August 28, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Piscataquis, ME
The National Weather Service office in Caribou issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Piscataquis in Maine, which was in force until 6:00 p.m. local time on August 28. It was the 34th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Caribou issued in 2026. Maine had 21 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 2026, against 24 in an average August of 2008-2025 (Maine's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 45 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Caribou ME
- Area
- Piscataquis
- State
- Maine
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 5:15 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2026
- Expires
- 6:00 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KCAR SV.W 0034
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
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The notice as issued
SVRCAR The National Weather Service in Caribou Maine has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Piscataquis County in north central Maine... * Until 600 PM EDT. * At 514 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Monson, or near Guilford, moving east at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines. * Locations impacted include... Dover-Foxcroft, Guilford, Brownville Junction, Milo, Monson, Blanchard, Elliottsville, Kingsbury Plantation, Orneville, Ebeemee, Sangerville, Brownville, Parkman, Abbot, Sebec, Atkinson, Shirley, Willimantic, Bowerbank, and Onawa. This includes State Highway 11 between Milo and Brownville Junction.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Source: National Weather Service: the notice at its source. The text is the agency's, unedited. A U.S. Government work, in the public domain.