Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 22, 2007, 4:03 PM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 23, 2007, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2007, 4:03 PM EST (21:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2007, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2007, 3:15 AM EST
- In force
- 2 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 21:03 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, 9.1 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
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 222103 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 403 PM EST THU FEB 22 2007 MAZ022>024-230500- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0008.070223T0600Z-070223T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 403 PM EST THU FEB 22 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 6 PM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 6 PM EST FRIDAY. THIS ADVISORY INCLUDES CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH LATE TONIGHT... BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE NORTH FRIDAY MORNING. WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 45 MPH...MAINLY ON THE OUTER CAPE AND NANTUCKET. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY...BEFORE DIMINISHING EARLY FRIDAY EVENING. 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. $$ JWD/EVT
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 230325 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1025 PM EST THU FEB 22 2007 MAZ022>024-230945- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0008.070223T0600Z-070223T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1025 PM EST THU FEB 22 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST FRIDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST FRIDAY. WHILE DELAYED...NORTHERLY WINDS SHOULD INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 45 MPH DURING THE DAY...MAINLY ON THE OUTER CAPE AND NANTUCKET. ONCE STRONG WINDS DEVELOP...THEY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DRIVING CAN BECOME DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES FRIDAY MORNING. $$ DRAG
000 WWUS71 KBOX 230815 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 315 AM EST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELLED... MAZ022>024-230915- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-070223T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 315 AM EST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. A STRENGTHENING OFFSHORE STORM WILL ALLOW FOR WINDS TO INCREASE THIS MORNING AND LAST THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY AS WELL AS TONIGHT. WHILE GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED...WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE REACHED OVER A WIDESPREAD AREA TODAY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 11:29 AM EST | Snow Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 5 more | 21 hr |
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.