Alert archive / Hawaii / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this wind advisory at Jan 3, 2006, 2:20 PM HST for Hawaii County, Kalawao County, Hawaii. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2006, 2:20 PM HST (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2006, 12:00 AM HST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
Counties Hawaii County, HI, Kalawao County, HI
The nearest sounding before it
Hilo, (PITO), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWHW70 PHFO 040037 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED HEADLINES AND EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 220 PM HST TUE JAN 3 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE SUMMITS OF HALEAKALA MAUNA KEA AND MAUNA LOA... .OVERVIEW...OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SUMMITS OF HALEAKALA ON MAUI AND MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA ON THE BIG ISLAND INDICATE WINDS ARE BECOMING RATHER STRONG AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THESE STRONG WINDS SHOULD BE SHORT LIVED AND DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING. UNTIL THEN...EXPECT WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. HIZ022-028-041030- /X.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0001.060104T0020Z-060104T1000Z/ HALEAKALA SUMMIT-BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- 220 PM HST TUE JAN 3 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE HIGH SUMMITS ON MAUI AND THE BIG ISLAND. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS ABOVE 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. VISTORS TO THE SUMMITS NEED TO DRIVE WITH EXTRA CAUTION. $$ NASH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWHW70 PHFO 041022 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1222 AM HST WED JAN 4 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR THE SUMMITS OF MAUNA KEA...MAUNA LOA AND HALEKALA... .OVERVIEW...WINDS HAVE DECREASED OVER THE SUMMITS. HIZ022-028-041130- /X.EXP.PHFO.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-060104T1000Z/ HALEAKALA SUMMIT-BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- 1222 AM HST WED JAN 4 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$
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 Honolulu, HI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Jan 3, 10:00 AM HST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 10:00 AM HST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1000 AM HST TUE JAN 3 2006 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE ISLANDS FROM THE NORTHWEST HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY IN FAVOR OF A CONVERGENCE LINE NOW OVER MAUI COUNTY. THIS WILL RESULT IN WINDS TURNING NORTHWEST FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE STATE...EVEN AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. THUS...WHILE CLOUDS AND SHOWERS WILL SEE AN INCREASE LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT...ONLY LIGHT RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NEW EXPECTED AS THE WEAKENED SURFACE FRONTAL BAND SWEEPS THROUGH THE ISLANDS. WINDS WILL TURN NORTH TONIGHT... BECOMING TRADES LATE WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .DISCUSSION... WINDS TURNED BRIEFLY SOUTHERLY OVERNIGHT...AT LEAST AT CLOUD LEVEL...BUT BY MORNING...A NORTHWEST SWEEP OF WINDS ALOFT HAD PUSHED THE CONVERGENCE ZONE NEAR OAHU ACROSS MOLOKAI TO MAUI WITH NORTHWEST FLOW...AT LEAST AT CLOUD LEVEL...BEHIND IT. EXPECT INCREASING NORTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THE DAY TODAY AS A WEAKENING FRONT MOVES RAPIDLY ACROSS THE STATE FROM THE NORTHWEST. SATELLITE PLACES THE SURFACE FRONT JUST PAST BUOY ONE AND NOW ABOUT 165 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI. BUT WITH MINIMAL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONTAL BAND...AND THUS LITTLE CLOUD TO MARK IT...AM NOT EXPECTING MUCH IN THE SHOWER LINE FOR THE ISLANDS AS IT PASSES. BUT A MOISTER LOW-LEVEL FLOW BEHING THE FRONT WILL BRING AN INCREASE IN TRADE SHOWERS BEGINNING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING...MAINLY NIGHTS AND MORNINGS...THROUGH MUCH OF THIS WEEK. CURRENT GFS MODEL IS SHOWING A SHIFT TO NORTHERLY WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT FOR ALL ISLANDS. THESE WINDS WUBKK THEN BECOME MODERATE TRADES BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...AND REMAIN MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY FRESH TRADES INTO THE COMING WEEKEND. ISLANDERS CAN EXPECT THE USUAL NIGHT AND MORNING...MAINLY WINDWARD AND MAUKA SHOWERS THROUGH THE WEEK...WITH SOME OF THESE SHOWERS OCCASIONALLY SPREADING LEEWARD OF THE COASTAL MOUNTAINS. && .MARINE... WAVEWATCH DATA SHOWS THE NEW NORTH NORTHWEST SWELL REACHING BUOY 1 BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 1 AM WEDNESDAY. NORMALLY WE/D FIGURE ABOUT A 9 HOUR TRAVEL TIME FROM THE BUOY TO KAUAI ON THIS ONE...AND EVEN IF WE SHORTEN THAT UP TO 5 HOURS DUE TO THE DIRECTION...WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SWELL NOT ARRIVING ONTO KAUAI UNTIL 6 AM WEDNESDAY. IN ADDITION...THE INITIAL SWELL WILL BE MARGINALLY BREAKING THE HIGH SURF ADVISORY CRITERIA OF 15 FEET FOR THE NORTH FACING SHORES. CERTAINLY EXPECT THE SURF TO RISE IN THE PRE-DAWN HOURS OF WEDNESDAY NORTH OF KAUAI...BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING THE HIGH SURF ADVISORY UNTIL LATER TODAY...TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION. THE SWELL MAY ALSO PRODUCE HARBOR SURGES IN KAHULUI AND HILO HARBORS. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE LARGE SWELL. BY THURSDAY...TRADE WINDS ARE LIKELY TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO REQUIRE A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS ALSO. && .HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FARRELL
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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.