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Wind Advisory 26, NWS Fairbanks, AK

September 9, 2005

NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Sep 9, 2005, 12:34 PM AKDT. It took effect at Sep 9, 2005, 5:34 PM AKDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 2005, 12:34 PM AKDT (20:34 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 9, 2005, 5:34 PM AKDT
Expired
Sep 10, 2005, 10:49 AM AKDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Fairbanks, AK

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWAK71 PAFG 100134
NPWNSB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
534 PM ADT FRI SEP 9 2005


AKZ201>203-100945-
/X.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.050910T0134Z-050910T1300Z/
WESTERN ARCTIC COAST-NORTHERN ARCTIC COAST-
CENTRAL BEAUFORT SEA COAST-
INCLUDING...WAINWRIGHT...ATQASUK...POINT LAY...CAPE LISBURNE...
BARROW...ALAKTAK...PITT POINT...NULAVIK...NUIQSUT...PRUDHOE BAY...
ALPINE...DEADHORSE...KUPARUK
534 PM ADT FRI SEP 9 2005

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM ADT SATURDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM ADT SATURDAY. 

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 35 MPH ARE OCCURRING.

$$
4 follow-up statements
000 
WWAK71 PAFG 100943
NPWNSB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
143 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

AKZ201>203-101300-
/X.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-050910T1300Z/
WESTERN ARCTIC COAST-NORTHERN ARCTIC COAST-
CENTRAL BEAUFORT SEA COAST-
INCLUDING...WAINWRIGHT...ATQASUK...POINT LAY...CAPE LISBURNE...
BARROW...ALAKTAK...PITT POINT...NULAVIK...NUIQSUT...PRUDHOE BAY...
ALPINE...DEADHORSE...KUPARUK
143 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM ADT EARLY THIS
MORNING...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 35 MPH ARE OCCURRING.

$$
000 
WWAK71 PAFG 101254
NPWNSB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
454 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

AKZ201-203-101400-
/X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-050910T1300Z/
WESTERN ARCTIC COAST-CENTRAL BEAUFORT SEA COAST-
INCLUDING...WAINWRIGHT...ATQASUK...POINT LAY...CAPE LISBURNE...
NUIQSUT...PRUDHOE BAY...ALPINE...DEADHORSE...KUPARUK
454 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

$$

AKZ202-102000-
/X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-050910T2000Z/
NORTHERN ARCTIC COAST-
INCLUDING...BARROW...ALAKTAK...PITT POINT...NULAVIK
454 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON ADT TODAY...

EAST WINDS 25 MPH WILL OCCASIONALLY GUST AROUND 35 MPH BEFORE
DIMINISHING LATE THIS MORNING.


$$
000 
WWAK71 PAFG 101420
NPWNSB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...RESENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
619 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

AKZ201-203-101400-
/X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-050910T1300Z/
WESTERN ARCTIC COAST-CENTRAL BEAUFORT SEA COAST-
INCLUDING...WAINWRIGHT...ATQASUK...POINT LAY...CAPE LISBURNE...
NUIQSUT...PRUDHOE BAY...ALPINE...DEADHORSE...KUPARUK
619 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

$$

AKZ202-102000-
/X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-050910T2000Z/
NORTHERN ARCTIC COAST-
INCLUDING...BARROW...ALAKTAK...PITT POINT...NULAVIK
619 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON ADT TODAY...

EAST WINDS 25 MPH WILL OCCASIONALLY GUST AROUND 35 MPH BEFORE
DIMINISHING LATE THIS MORNING.


$$
000 
WWAK71 PAFG 101849
NPWNSB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
1049 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005


AKZ202-102000-
/X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-050910T2000Z/
NORTHERN ARCTIC COAST-
INCLUDING...BARROW...ALAKTAK...PITT POINT...NULAVIK
1049 AM ADT SAT SEP 10 2005

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Sep 9, 9:30 AM AKDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 9:30 AM AKDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
NORTH ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
230 PM ADT FRI SEP 9 2005

.DISCUSSION...THE LONG WAVE PATTERN CONSISTING OF A TROUGH OVER
THE BERING AND A RIDGE OVER EASTERN ALASKA WILL PERSIST INTO
SUNDAY WITH A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS
NORTHERN ALASKA. THE LONG WAVE RIDGE STARTS TO BREAK DOWN
NEXT WEEK CAUSING MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS NORTHERN ALASKA.

THE FIRST STRONG SHORT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE IS NOW
IN NORTON SOUND AND WILL MOVE OVER THE SEWARD PENINSULA TONIGHT
AND DISSIPATE NEAR POINT HOPE SATURDAY. THE ASSOCIATED FRONT
NOW FROM THE SEWARD PENINSULA TO PAKN WILL MOVE TO
PAPO-PAKP-PAFA-PAVD BY 12Z SAT...AND PAPO-CYOC-PAOR SATURDAY.
EXPECT EAST WINDS OF 20-30KT AHEAD OF THE FRONT ALONG COASTAL
AREAS. RAIN ALONG THIS FRONT WILL BE GREATER THAN 1/2 INCH IN
UPSLOPE AREAS AND LESSER IN DOWNSLOPE AREAS. SOUTH CHINOOK
WINDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT OVER THE ALASKA RANGE ARE NOW
CAUSING WIND ADVISORIES THERE ALONG WITH A RAIN SHADOW.
CHINOOK WINDS WILL END AS THE FRONT MOVES EAST TONIGHT
AND SPREADS RAIN INTO THE EASTERN INTERIOR.

THE SECOND STRONG SHORTWAVE NOW NEAR PASY CONTAINS THE
REMNANTS OF AN OLD TYPHOON. THIS WILL MOVE INTO THE
CENTRAL BERING SEA SATURDAY PM AND THE NORTHERN BERING SUN.
ANOTHER ROUND OF .50 OR MORE OF RAIN IS EXPECTED ALONG
THE WEST COAST SUN AND MON ALONG WITH GALE FORCE WINDS.
MODELS ARE LIKELY TOO LOW ON PRECIP ESTIMATES AS THEY USUALLY
ARE WITH EX-TYPHOONS. STORM SURGE BEHIND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT
WILL MOVE INTO WEST COAST LATE SUN BUT HIGHEST SURGE
SHOULD BE SOUTH OF PACZ.

MODELS INITIALIZE WELL ON MOST FIELDS AND SHOW
SIMILAR SOLUTIONS THROUGH 60HRS. THE EXCEPTION IS AT THE
SURFACE WHERE THE BERING SEA LOW AT 18Z WAS 5 MB DEEPER THAN
MODEL SOLUTIONS. THIS CAUSES THE MODEL SOLUTIONS TO WEAKEN
THE SURFACE LOW TOO QUICKLY AND RESULTS IN MODELS WINDS 5 KTS
TOO WEAK THROUGH 12Z SAT.

.HYDRO...NONE

.AFG WATCH/WARNING/ADVISORIES...
PUBLIC...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT 223 225 AND 226.
MARINE...SCA THROUGH SATURDAY 230 235 240 245.

JB SEP 05

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 10:51 PM AKDTGale WarningAFG10 hr
Sep 9, 8:33 AM AKDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAFG4 days

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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.