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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2006, 1:06 AM AKST. It took effect at Feb 18, 2006, 3:00 PM AKST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2006, 1:06 AM AKST (10:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2006, 3:00 PM AKST
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2006, 8:44 AM AKST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWAK73 PAFG 181506 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 606 AM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 AKZ225-190000- /X.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.060219T0000Z-060219T0900Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 606 AM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$ AKZ226-190000- /X.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.060219T0000Z-060219T0900Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 606 AM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$
4 follow-up statements
000 WWAK73 PAFG 182301 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 201 PM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 AKZ225-190900- /X.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.060219T0000Z-060219T0900Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 201 PM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$ AKZ226-190900- /X.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.060219T0000Z-060219T0900Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 201 PM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT AST TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$
000 WWAK73 PAFG 190853 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 1153 PM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 AKZ225-191500- /X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-060219T1500Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 1153 PM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM AST SUNDAY... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM AST SUNDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$ AKZ226-191500- /X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-060219T1500Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 1153 PM AST SAT FEB 18 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM AST SUNDAY... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM AST SUNDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$
000 WWAK73 PAFG 191443 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 543 AM AST SUN FEB 19 2006 AKZ225-191545- /X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-060219T1500Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 543 AM AST SUN FEB 19 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$ AKZ226-191800- /X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-060219T1800Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 543 AM AST SUN FEB 19 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM AST THIS MORNING... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM AST THIS MORNING. SOUTH WINDS GUSTING 50 MPH DECREASING TO WEST 15 MPH BY NOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. $$
000 WWAK73 PAFG 191744 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 844 AM AST SUN FEB 19 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... AKZ226-191845- /X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-060219T1800Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 844 AM AST SUN FEB 19 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. STRONG WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AS A COLD FRONT HAS PASSED... THOUGH GUSTS TO 35 MPH FROM THE SOUTHWEST WILL CONTINUE TODAY. $$
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 Feb 17, 8:43 AM AKST, 16 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 8:43 AM AKST, 16 hours 23 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 143 PM AST FRI FEB 17 2006 .DISCUSSION... MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT TODAY WITH ONLY SUBTLE DIFFERENCES. STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL TRANSITION TO THE EAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND GIVE WAY TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW OVER MUCH OF THE STATE BY SUNDAY. BY SUNDAY AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE TO NEAR THE CHUKOTSK PENINSULA AND BEGIN COLD ADVECTION INTO THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE. COLD AIR SHOULD BE SUPPLIED INTO THE STATE FROM THE WEST THROUGH THE WEEK. THIS SCENARIO IS PROGRESSIVE AND SHOULD LAST THROUGH THE END OF NEXT WEEK AS AN UPPER LEVEL LONG WAVE TROUGH SLIDES IN OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE. AS THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW TURNS SOUTHWESTERLY AND WESTERLY OVER NORTHERN ALASKA THIS WEEKEND...THIS WILL ALLOW A PERFECT SET UP FOR MOISTURE TO BE TRANSPORTED IN ALONG WITH COLD ADVECTION. THE COLD ADVECTION WILL BE USHERED IN WITH THE SURFACE LOW MOVING FROM THE BERING SEA TO THE SEWARD PENINSULA AND THEN NORTHWARD ON SUNDAY. THIS WILL GIVE THE INTERIOR AN EVEN BETTER CHANCE OF MUCH NEEDED SNOWFALL WITH THE COLD ADVECTION. WINDS WILL INCREASE OVER THE WEST COAST FROM NEAR UNALAKLEET TO KOTZEBUE ON SAT NIGHT AND THEN NORTHWARD TO THE ARCTIC COAST ON SUNDAY WITH THE SURFACE LOW MOVING ONTO THE WEST COAST. WITH 850 TEMPERATURES BEING 8 TO 10 BELOW SAT NIGHT...THE SURFACE TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE COLD ENOUGH TO SUPPORT GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING SNOW AND FALLING SNOW. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WATCH FOR AKZ206-AKZ218-AKZ219-AKZ220-AKZ221-AKZ222. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ210-PKZ215-PKZ220-PKZ225- PKZ230-PKZ235. && CF FEB 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 4:28 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | 29 hr | |
| Feb 17, 4:28 PM AKST | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | 51 hr | |
| Feb 17, 11:43 PM AKST | Winter Storm Warning | AFG | 39 hr | |
| Feb 18, 12:54 AM AKST | Winter Storm Warning | AFG | 35 hr | |
| Feb 18, 1:07 AM AKST | Winter Storm Warning | AFG | 37 hr | |
| Feb 18, 7:38 AM AKST | Blizzard Watch | AFG | 15 hr | |
| Feb 18, 8:17 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 15 hr | |
| Feb 18, 8:17 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 35 hr | |
| Feb 18, 8:18 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 61 hr | |
| Feb 18, 8:18 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 32 hr | |
| Feb 18, 8:27 AM AKST | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | 34 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.