Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 25, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Sep 2, 2006, 8:12 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut; Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2006, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 529 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 030012 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 812 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 ...STRONG WINDS WILL LIKELY CAUSE A FEW ADDITIONAL POWER OUTAGES TONIGHT IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHWEST MASSACHUSETTS... CTZ002-003-MAZ008>011-030700- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0025.060903T0012Z-060903T0700Z/ HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-WESTERN HAMPDEN MA- EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTFORD...WINDSOR LOCKS...UNION... VERNON...CHESTERFIELD...BLANDFORD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON... SPRINGFIELD 812 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM EDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM EDT SUNDAY FOR THE HARTFORD SPRINGFIELD AREA AS WELL AS PORTION OF HIGH TERRAIN ADJACENT THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. THE REMAINS OF ERNESTO HAVE RESULTED IN A POWERFUL LABOR DAY WEEKEND NOREASTER FOR SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT INTO NEW JERSEY. SOME OF ITS FRINGE POWER IS EXPECTED TO BRUSH HARTFORD AND TOLLAND COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT AS WELL AS HAMPDEN AND HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THE HIGH TERRAIN APPEARS MOST VULNERABLE BUT...A BAND OF INTENSE SHOWERS CURRENTLY ARCED NORTHWESTWARD OFF THE OCEAN INTO THE NEW YORK CITY AREA MAY ASSIST DOWNWARD TRANSFER OF STRONG WINDS ALOFT AS THE LEADING EDGE OF THOSE SHOWERS ARRIVE IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY AROUND MIDNIGHT. WINDS AT 8 PM WERE STILL GUSTING NEAR 45 MPH AROUND BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT AND THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES AND TWIGS DOWN IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT THIS EVENING. 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. $$ DRAG
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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.