Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Apr 4, 2006, 4:39 AM EDT for Barnstable County, Essex County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Apr 4, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2006, 4:39 AM EDT (08:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 4, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Essex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 2469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KBOX 040839 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 439 AM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST COASTAL MASSACHUSETTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .GUSTY WEST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS LOW PRESSURE INTENSIFIES ACROSS THE GULF OF MAINE. MAZ007-022-024-041700- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0016.060404T1900Z-060405T0400Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...NANTUCKET 439 AM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR CAPE COD....NANTUCKET ISLAND AND EASTERN ESSEX COUNTY IN MASSACHUSETTS. WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ACROSS CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET ISLAND AND PORTIONS OF EASTERN ESSEX COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ STRAUSS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 041426 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1026 AM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 MAZ007-022-024-042230- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0016.060404T1900Z-060405T0400Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...NANTUCKET 1026 AM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... THE WIND ADVISORY INCLUDES CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET...AS WELL AS CAPE ANN IN COASTAL ESSEX COUNTY. WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. THE STRONG WINDS ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. $$ JWD
000 WWUS71 KBOX 041852 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 252 PM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 MAZ007-042000- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0016.060404T1900Z-060405T0400Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...GLOUCESTER 252 PM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR COASTAL ESSEX COUNTY...INCLUDING CAPE ANN. STRONG WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. IT WILL BE WINDY INTO THIS EVENING HOWEVER...WITH WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH. $$ MAZ022-024-050300- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0016.060404T1900Z-060405T0400Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 252 PM EDT TUE APR 4 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET. WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED INTO EARLY TONIGHT. WINDS MAY GUST TO 45 MPH AT TIMES. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING. THE STRONG WINDS ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. $$ JWD
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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.