Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 16, 2007, 10:57 AM EST for Barnstable County, Nantucket County, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2007, 10:57 AM EST (15:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2007, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 16:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 4.0 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
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 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 161557 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1057 AM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 MAZ016-022-024-162300- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.070216T1600Z-070216T2300Z/ EASTERN NORFOLK MA-BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUINCY...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...NANTUCKET 1057 AM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY IS FOR THE OUTER CAPE...NANTUCKET AND THE BLUE HILLS. SUSTAINED WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW AT SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH TODAY...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 50 MPH. 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. $$ KJC
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS71 KBOX 162141 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 441 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 MAZ022-162245- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-070216T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN 441 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR CAPE COD. SUSTAINED WEST WINDS WILL BE LESS THAN 30 MPH. $$ MAZ016-024-162300- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-070216T2300Z/ EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUINCY...NANTUCKET 441 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON FOR NANTUCKET AND THE BLUE HILLS. SUSTAINED WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH AFTER 6 PM. A FEW GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE BLUE HILLS. 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. $$ KJC
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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.