Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 22, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Jun 7, 2006, 12:08 PM EDT for 7 counties in Massachusetts. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2006, 12:08 PM EDT (16:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 071608 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1208 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2006 ...BLUSTERY NORTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS THIS AFTERNOON... .AN UNUSUALLY STRONG COASTAL STORM FOR EARLY JUNE WILL BRING NOT ONLY BOUTS OF RAIN BUT STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS TO EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. MAZ007-015-016-019-022>024-072000- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0022.060607T1608Z-060607T2000Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...BOSTON...QUINCY... PLYMOUTH...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN...VINEYARD HAVEN... NANTUCKET 1208 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WIND ADVISORY INCLUDES EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS FROM CAPE ANN TO CAPE COD...INCLUDING MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FROM CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS NORTH TO BLUE HILL THROUGH 2 PM...AND FROM BOSTON TO CAPE ANN THROUGH 4 PM. 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. $$ KAB
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS71 KBOX 072024 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 424 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2006 ...STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS THIS EVENING... .AN UNUSUALLY STRONG COASTAL STORM FOR EARLY JUNE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS TO THE NORTHEASTERN SHORES OF MASSACHUSETTS. MAZ007-015-016-080000- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-060607T2000Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0023.060607T2024Z-060608T0000Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...BOSTON...QUINCY 424 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THIS WIND ADVISORY INCLUDES CAPE ANN...BOSTON...AND BLUE HILL. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA THIS EVENING...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ MAZ019-022>024-072130- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-060607T2000Z/ EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PLYMOUTH...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 424 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$ KAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:50 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 21 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:24 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 4 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.