Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2007, 3:10 PM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 19, 2007, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2007, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2007, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2007, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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 182010 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 310 PM EST SUN FEB 18 2007 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS... .COLDER AIR POURING INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WILL GENERATE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ON CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY. MAZ022>024-190500- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.070219T0500Z-070219T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 310 PM EST SUN FEB 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 3 PM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 3 PM EST MONDAY. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH LATER THIS EVENING. GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL AFFECT NANTUCKET AS WELL AS THE OUTER CAPE FROM PROVINCETOWN TO WELLFLEET. THE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH MONDAY AFTERNOON. 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. $$ JWD
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 190314 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1014 PM EST SUN FEB 18 2007 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS... .COLDER AIR POURING INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WILL GENERATE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ON CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY. MAZ022>024-191115- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.070219T0500Z-070219T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1014 PM EST SUN FEB 18 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST MONDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST MONDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH OVERNIGHT. GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL AFFECT NANTUCKET AS WELL AS THE OUTER CAPE FROM PROVINCETOWN TO WELLFLEET. THE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH MONDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$
000 WWUS71 KBOX 190837 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 337 AM EST MON FEB 19 2007 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS... .COLD AIR POURING INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WILL GENERATE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ON CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET TODAY. MAZ022>024-191645- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-070219T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 337 AM EST MON FEB 19 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH THIS MORNING. GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL AFFECT NANTUCKET AS WELL AS THE OUTER CAPE FROM PROVINCETOWN TO WELLFLEET. ALREADY...PROVINCETOWN HAS REPORTED WINDS AS STRONG AS 31 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 43 MPH. THE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. 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. $$ WTB
000 WWUS71 KBOX 191543 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1043 AM EST MON FEB 19 2007 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ON CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INTO THIS AFTERNOON... .COLD AIR POURING INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WILL GENERATE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ON CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. MAZ022>024-192000- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-070219T2000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1043 AM EST MON FEB 19 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON FOR CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO MID AFTERNOON...BEFORE WINDS GRADUALLY SUBSIDE. GUSTS WILL REACH AS HIGH AS 45 MPH...ESPECIALLY ON NANTUCKET AND THE OUTER CAPE. SO FAR TODAY...PROVINCETOWN HAS REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS AS STRONG AS 33 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 46 MPH. ON NANTUCKET...SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE REACHED AS HIGH AS 31 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. ON MARTHAS VINEYARD...SUSTAINED WINDS AT THE AIRPORT IN VINEYARD HAVEN HAVE BEEN AS HIGH AS 31 MPH WITH A PEAK GUST UP TO 40 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AND IN OPEN AREAS. $$ JWD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 3:05 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.