Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 8, 2007, 2:57 AM EST for Barnstable County, Nantucket County, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 8, 2007, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 2007, 2:57 AM EST (07:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 8, 2007, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2007, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 1890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 080757 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 257 AM EST THU FEB 8 2007 MAZ016-022-024-081600- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0004.070208T1700Z-070209T0500Z/ EASTERN NORFOLK MA-BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUINCY...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...NANTUCKET 257 AM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES CAPE COD...NANTUCKET...AND THE BLUE HILLS SOUTHWEST OF BOSTON. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY BEHIND AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT...WHICH WILL CROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED...ALONG WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT. $$ JWD
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 081539 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1039 AM EST THU FEB 8 2007 MAZ016-022-024-082345- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0004.070208T1700Z-070209T0500Z/ EASTERN NORFOLK MA-BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUINCY...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...NANTUCKET 1039 AM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES CAPE COD...NANTUCKET...AND THE BLUE HILLS SOUTHWEST OF BOSTON. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY BEHIND AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT...WHICH WILL CROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED...ALONG WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT. $$
000 WWUS71 KBOX 082015 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 315 PM EST THU FEB 8 2007 MAZ016-022-024-082115- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070209T0500Z/ EASTERN NORFOLK MA-BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUINCY...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...NANTUCKET 315 PM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE BLUE HILLS...CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET ISLAND. ALTHOUGH THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED....IT WILL REMAIN WINDY THIS EVENING WITH WEST WINDS AVERAGING 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WITH STRONGEST SPEEDS ALONG THE COASTAL PLAIN. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE LATER THIS EVENING. $$
Nearby
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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.