Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 17, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Apr 17, 2007, 11:20 PM EDT for 6 counties in Massachusetts. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2007, 11:20 PM EDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2007, 11:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable 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 03:22 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 180320 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1120 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2007 ...NOREASTER TO CONTINUE TO POUND COASTAL EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH WEDNESDAY THOUGH WINDS NOT QUITE AS FIERCE AS THAT OF MONDAY MORNING... MAZ006-007-015-016-019-181130- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.070418T0320Z-070418T1600Z/ WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAWRENCE...GLOUCESTER...BOSTON... QUINCY...PLYMOUTH 1120 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM EDT WEDNESDAY. NORTHEAST WINDS WERE GUSTING BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH LATE THIS TUESDAY EVENING FROM DUXBURY NORTH TO PLUM ISLAND INCLUDING PARTS OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY NORTH OF BOSTON THROUGH BOSTON. WINDS WILL CONTINUE GUSTING 40 TO NEAR 50 MPH THROUGH AT LEAST FORENOON WEDNESDAY IN COASTAL EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THERE WILL BE SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES AND MINOR REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE IN ADDITION TO SIGNIFICANT COASTAL FLOOD DAMAGE AND ADDITIONAL BRIEF DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND SLEET. 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. $$ MAZ022-024-181130- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.070418T1000Z-070418T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 1120 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 4 PM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 4 PM EDT WEDNESDAY. THE LULL IN WIND JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON THE CAPE AND NANTUCKET WONT LAST TOO LONG. ONCE OUR LONG DURATION NOREASTER SHIFTS SLIGHTLY EAST WEDNESDAY...A LOBE OF STRONG NORTHEAST WIND WILL ROTATE SOUTH FROM THE BOSTON DUXBURY AREA ONTO ALL OF CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET AROUND DAWN WEDNESDAY AND BLOW HARD AT TIMES MOST OF THE DAY. THIS MAY CAUSE ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES A FEW MORE REPORTS OF MINOR WIND DAMAGE. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING WILL ALSO BE BECOME DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ DRAG
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 180902 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 502 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 ...GALE FORCE NOREASTER GUSTS ARE SLOW TO DEPART COASTAL EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS BUT IMPROVED CONDITIONS WILL ARRIVE HERE LATE TODAY OR MORE LIKELY SOMETIME TONIGHT... MAZ006-181015- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-070418T1600Z/ WESTERN ESSEX MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LAWRENCE 502 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY JUST WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 IN NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. STRONGEST WINDS HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED IN THE INTERIOR OF ESSEX COUNTY AND ADVISORY WIND CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER ANTICIPATED. $$ MAZ007-015-016-019-181600- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-070418T1600Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...BOSTON...QUINCY...PLYMOUTH 502 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BE GUSTING BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH AT TIMES THIS MORNING ALONG THE NEAREST MILE OR TWO OF COASTAL EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AS YET ANOTHER SPOKE OF WIND AND RAIN APPROACHES THE COAST FROM THE EAST. THERE MAY STILL BE SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES AND MINOR REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE AS WELL AS BRIEF DOWNPOURS OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXING WITH SLEET TOWARD MIDDAY. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ MAZ022-024-181715- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.070418T1000Z-070418T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 502 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET. A LOBE OF STRONG NORTHEAST WIND WILL ROTATE SOUTH OVER THE OUTER CAPE AND NANTUCKET LATER THIS MORNING AND ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON... BEFORE EASING TONIGHT. THIS MAY CAUSE ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES A FEW MORE REPORTS OF MINOR WIND DAMAGE. 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 WILL ALSO BE BECOME DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ DRAG
000 WWUS71 KBOX 181555 AAA NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1155 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 MAZ007-015-016-019-181700- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-070418T1600Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...BOSTON...QUINCY...PLYMOUTH 1155 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS COASTLINE...FROM GLOUCESTER SOUTH INTO PLYMOUTH COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOSTON. WINDS HAVE LESSENED SOMEWHAT...HOWEVER NORTHEAST WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY WITH SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ALONG WITH A FEW GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THESE SPEEDS ARE LESS THAN WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ MAZ022-024-181700- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-070418T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 1155 AM EDT WED APR 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET. WINDS HAVE LESSENED SOMEWHAT... HOWEVER NORTHEAST WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY WITH SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ALONG WITH A FEW GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THESE SPEEDS ARE LESS THAN WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ NOCERA
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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.