Alert archive / Hawaii / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this wind advisory at Dec 19, 2005, 11:58 AM HST for Hawaii County, Hawaii. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2005, 11:58 AM HST (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2005, 2:59 PM HST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
County Hawaii County, HI
The nearest sounding before it
Hilo, (PITO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWHW70 PHFO 192158 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1158 AM HST MON DEC 19 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE BIG ISLAND SUMMITS THIS AFTERNOON... .AN OLD FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH THE BIG ISLAND EARLY THIS MORNING. STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE REGION. WIND SPEEDS WILL FALL BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS BY MID AFTERNOON. HIZ028-200100- /X.CAN.PHFO.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-051219T2200Z/ /X.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0005.051219T2158Z-051220T0100Z/ BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- 1158 AM HST MON DEC 19 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM HST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM HST THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WEST NORTHWEST WINDS OF 40 MPH WITH GUSTS ABOVE 50 MPH REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON FOR THE SUMMITS ON THE BIG ISLAND. WIND WILL QUICKLY DIMINISH BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS BY 3 PM. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS ABOVE 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ PROTON
1 follow-up statement
000 WWHW70 PHFO 200059 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 259 PM HST MON DEC 19 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE BIG ISLAND SUMMITS IS CANCELLED... .A FRONT THAT MOVED OVER THE BIG ISLAND YESTERDAY BROUGHT HIGH WINDS TO THE REGION HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. THIS IS ALLOWING WINDS TO SLOWLY DIMINISH OVER THE SUMMITS OF THE BIG ISLAND. HIZ028-200200- /X.CAN.PHFO.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-051220T0100Z/ BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- 259 PM HST MON DEC 19 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS CONTINUE TO GUST UP TO 40 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SUMMITS. $$ PROTON
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 Honolulu, HI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Dec 19, 10:00 AM HST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 10:00 AM HST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1000 AM HST MON DEC 19 2005 .SYNOPSIS... A SURFACE RIDGE HAS STARTED TO MOVE OVER THE STATE THIS MORNING. THIS RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER THE ISLAND UNTIL THURSDAY WHEN A FRONT WILL START TO PUSH THE RIDGE OUT OF THE REGION. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS HAVE STARTED TO MOVE INTO THE STATE THIS MORNING FROM THE WEST AND WILL SPREAD EAST TO ALL ISLAND BY TONIGHT. SUMMITS ON THE BIG ISLAND REMAIN GUSTY AND WILL TAPER OFF BY THIS EVENING. ONLY A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS OVER WINDWARD AND MAUKA REGIONS. && .DISCUSSION... YESTERDAY/S DRY FRONT HAS WASHED OUT OVER THE EASTERN ISLANDS OVERNIGHT AND IS PRETTY MUCH GONE. ONLY REMNANT FEATURE IS SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER THE BIG ISLAND SUMMITS. THE WINDS OVER THE SUMMITS SHOULD BACK DOWN FROM WARNING LEVELS BY NOON INTO ADVISORY CATEGORY. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD ON BACKING DOWN SLOWLY. WILL UPDATE AROUND THE NOON HOUR TO MAKE THE CHANGE FROM WARNING TO ADVISORY ON THE WINDS. A SURFACE RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD INTO THE AREA TODAY AND SHOULD HOLD STRONG ALL THE WAY UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT WHEN ANOTHER FRONT MOVES INTO FROM THE NORTHWEST. THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY WE ARE EXPECTING ANOTHER DRY FRONT TO MOVE ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. THIS FRONT IS BEING PUSHED ALONG BY A VERY STRONG 200 KNOT JET AT 250 MB. AGAIN THE ISLAND CHAIN REMAINS IN THE RIGHT FRONT EXIT REGION OF THE JET...OR PLENTY OF DOWNWARD MOTION TO MIX DOWN WINDS FROM THE MID LEVELS. MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW 30 TO 35 KNOT WINDS AT THOSE LEVELS. THIS COULD AGAIN BRING STRONG ADVISORY LEVELS WINDS DOWN TO SEA LEVEL...AND THE SUMMITS AGAIN COULD SEE ANOTHER HIGH WIND EVENT. CONFIDENCE IS PRETTY GOOD THAT THIS FRONT WILL PLAY IN SIMILAR FASHION TO YESTERDAY/S EVENT...AND COULD BE A BIT STRONGER. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK NO LARGE CHANGE IN THE PATTERN IS EXPECTED. LOOKS VERY DRY...WITH LITTLE OR NO TRADE WIND AFFECTS. THIS SHOULD PRODUCE COOL NIGHTS IN THE INTERIOR...AND LOCAL LAND AND SEA BREEZES. && .MARINE... LARGE NORTHWEST SWELLS HAVE BEEN BUILDING FURTHER AT OUR NORTHWEST BUOY AS A VERY LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL GENERATED BY THE STORM THAT MOVED BY TO OUR NORTH CONTINUES TO IMPACT THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. THUS HAVE INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE EXPECTED SURF AND ALSO THE AREA UNDER A HIGH SURF WARNING AND ADVISORY FOR TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. THE SURF IS EXPECTED SLOWLY DIMINISH FROM THIS MORNING/S PEAK...TO BELOW WARNING LEVELS FOR NORTH AND WEST SHORES DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. THEN THE SURF IS EXPECT TO FALL BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. ANOTHER VERY LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL ARRIVING THURSDAY NIGHT MAY AGAIN REACH WARNING LEVELS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL. && .FIRE WEATHER... PROLONGED DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE STATE WILL ELEVATE FIRE DANGER ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH THE WEEK AHEAD. THURSDAY NIGHT/S INTO FRIDAY/S FRONTAL PASSAGE COULD BRING EXTREME FIRE DANGER TO THE STATE WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LOWER THAN AVERAGE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND DRIED FUEL CONDITIONS. A /NO BURN PERIOD/ DECLARATION FROM THE HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLAND OF OAHU THROUGH NOON ON TUESDAY FOR POOR AIR QUALITY. && .HYDROLOGY... PROLONGED DRY CONDITIONS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH NEXT WEEK ACROSS THE STATE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN THE HYDROLOGICAL OUTLOOK PRODUCT ISSUED THIS MORNING. && .HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND WARNING FOR MAUNA KEA AND MAUNA LOA THROUGH NOON...THEN ADVISORY FOR THE AFTERNOON. HIGH SURF WARNING FOR NORTH AND WEST FACING SHORES OF NIIHAU... KAUAI...OAHU...MOLOKAI AND MAUI THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR THE NORTH AND WEST FACING SHORES OF THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR MOST HAWAIIAN WATERS EXPOSED TO LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL. && PROTON
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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.