Alert archive / Rhode Island / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 24, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Sep 2, 2006, 3:12 AM EDT for Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island; Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Sep 2, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2006, 3:12 AM EDT (07:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 2, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 020712 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 312 AM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 MAZ023-024-RIZ006>008-021600- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0024.060902T1200Z-060902T2200Z/ DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET... NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND 312 AM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES THE RHODE ISLAND SOUTH COAST...BLOCK ISLAND...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. EAST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH THIS MORNING... WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL SUBSIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. 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. $$ JWD
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 021445 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1045 AM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 MAZ023-024-RIZ006>008-022200- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0024.000000T0000Z-060902T2200Z/ DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET... NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND 1045 AM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES THE RHODE ISLAND SOUTH COAST...BLOCK ISLAND...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. SUSTAINED EAST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT...SOME LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY AREA WILL EXPERIENCE EAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL THEN SUBSIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ NMB
000 WWUS71 KBOX 022003 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 403 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 MAZ023-024-RIZ006>008-022200- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0024.000000T0000Z-060902T2200Z/ DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET... NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND 403 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES THE RHODE ISLAND SOUTH COAST...BLOCK ISLAND...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. SUSTAINED EAST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY AREA ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE STRONGER WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH...ACCOMPANIED BY WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER 6 PM. HOWEVER GUSTY EAST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST OVERNIGHT. 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. $$ NMB
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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.