Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2005

Wind Advisory 6, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

October 22, 2005Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Oct 22, 2005, 9:52 PM EDT for Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 22, 2005, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 2005, 12:00 PM EDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 455 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WWUS71 KBOX 230152
NPWBOX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
952 PM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

...A DEVELOPING GALE CENTER SOUTH OF LONG ISLAND THIS EVENING SHOULD
TRACK ACROSS CAPE COD EARLY SUNDAY THEN DEPART INTO THE GULF OF
MAINE BY NOON SUNDAY...


MAZ023-024-231000-
/X.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.051023T0152Z-051023T1600Z/
DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET
952 PM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM EDT SUNDAY FOR NANTUCKET AND 
MARTHAS VINYARD...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...
WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON SUNDAY.

SUSTAINED EAST WINDS SHOULD BRIEFLY REACH 30 TO 35 MPH AROUND MIDNIGHT
AND THEN AGAIN AROUND DAYBREAK SUNDAY WHEN THE WIND SHIFTS TO
SOUTHWEST.

A GUST BETWEEN 45 AND 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IF A
THUNDERSTORM OCCURS OVERNIGHT AND THEN AGAIN DURING THE SUNDAY
MORNING DAYLIGHT HOURS.
 
A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF JUST OVER 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WHILE
NOT AS POWERFUL AS DAMAGING SUSTAINED WINDS OVER 40 MPH...THE FORECAST
WIND OVERNIGHT STILL CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

BE ALERT FOR BLOWING DEBRIS.

WINDS WILL STEADILY DIMINISH SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

$$

DRAG

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS71 KBOX 230900
NPWBOX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
500 AM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005

...A DEVELOPING GALE CENTER SOUTH OF LONG ISLAND THIS EVENING
SHOULD TRACK ACROSS CAPE COD EARLY SUNDAY THEN DEPART INTO THE
GULF OF MAINE BY NOON SUNDAY...

MAZ023-024-231600-
/X.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-051023T1600Z/
DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET
500 AM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY...

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY FOR 
NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD.

SUSTAINED WEST WINDS SHOULD REACH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS
TO 45 MPH FOR A TIME THIS MORNING.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH
ARE EXPECTED. THIS CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION AND BE ALERT FOR BLOWING DEBRIS.

WINDS WILL STEADILY DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 2:41 PM EDT	High Wind Watch	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more	50 hr
Oct 23, 4:13 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	BOX		50 hr

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.