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Wind Chill Advisory 98, NWS Fairbanks, AK

March 7, 2007

NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 7, 2007, 12:51 AM AKST. It took effect at Mar 7, 2007, 5:51 AM AKST. It was in force for 47 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2007, 12:51 AM AKST (09:51 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 7, 2007, 5:51 AM AKST
Expired: Mar 9, 2007, 4:45 AM AKST
In force: 47 hr
Issued by: NWS Fairbanks, AK

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Mar 6, 8:30 AM AKST, 16 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 8:30 AM AKST, 16 hours 21 minutes before

NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
130 PM AST TUE MAR 6 2007

.DISCUSSION...LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER LOW AND
LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER THE GULF EXTENDING NORTH INTO THE BROOKS
RANGE...WITH A PERSISTENT HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN
BERING SEA AND ALSO IN NORTHWEST CANADA. MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD
AGREEMENT ON SYNOPTIC SCALE PATTERN WITH LITTLE VARIATION FROM
CURRENT PATTERN ALL THE WAY THROUGH NEXT WEEK.

.NORTH SLOPE...WIND CHILL ADVISORIES FOR ZONES 203 AND 204 TONIGHT
INTO WEDNESDAY AS A BRISK EASTERLY FLOW CRANKS UP OVER THE CENTRAL
AND EASTERN BEAUFORT SEA COAST. WIND CHILL WARNING FOR ZONE 201
NORTHEAST OF ICY CAPE WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. A REINFORCING
UPPER LOW WILL EVENTUALLY DROP SOUTH INTO LONGWAVE TROUGH AND
MOVE INTO NORTHWEST ALASKA TONIGHT. THIS WILL BRING SOME SNOW
SHOWERS TO THE ARCTIC COAST TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY.

.WEST COAST...HIGH PRESSURE IN THE BERING SEA AND LOW PRESSURE
OVER THE INTERIOR WILL CAUSE THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ALONG THE WEST
COAST AND MARINE ZONES TO STRENGTHEN TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO
FRIDAY. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED AS A WEAK SURFACE
TROUGH SLIDES DOWN THE COAST WEDS AND THU.

.INTERIOR....WIND CHILL ADVISORIES CONTINUE OVER ZONES 220 AND
226. APPEARS THE ADVISORY IN ZONE 220 WILL BE ENDING EARLY WEDS
MORNING WITH ZONE 226 SHOWING SIGNS OF CONTINUING INTO WEDNESDAY.
SURFACE LOW OVER THE NORTHERN GULF WILL EXTEND NORTH TO AROUND
FORT YUKON THROUGH WEDS RESULTING IN MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND
OCCASIONAL LIGHT SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE INTERIOR. ACCUMULATIONS
LOOK NEGLIGIBLE...THUS WILL BE MENTIONING NO ACCUMULATION IN MOST OF
THE ZONES. BRIEF BREAK IN THE WINDS...BUT APPEARS THE GRADIENT
TIGHTENS ONCE AGAIN THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY.

COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE

&&

.AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR AKZ203-AKZ204-AKZ220-AKZ226.

WIND CHILL WARNING FOR AKZ201.

BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ210-PKZ215-PKZ220-PKZ225-
PKZ240-PKZ245.
&&

KS MAR 07

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 6, 10:08 PM AKST	Gale Warning	AFG	68 hr
Mar 7, 12:51 AM AKST	Winter Weather Advisory	AFG	28 hr
Mar 7, 7:43 AM AKST	Winter Storm Warning	AFG	21 hr
Mar 7, 9:03 AM AKST	Wind Chill Advisory	AFG	36 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.