Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 18, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at May 13, 2008, 12:26 PM EDT for Kent County, Newport County, Rhode Island; Bristol County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2008, 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 131626 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1226 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2008 MAZ020-023-024-131800- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-080513T1600Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0018.080513T1626Z-080513T1800Z/ SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1226 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST NEW ENGLAND COAST HAS BEEN EXTENDED INTO FAR EASTERN RHODE ISLAND AND CONTINUED FROM NEW BEDFORD TO MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET UNTIL 2 PM. AT NOON NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WERE STILL BLOWING AT ADVISORY CRITERIA WITH SUSTAINED VALUES NEAR 30 MPH AND GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. THESE WINDS ARE STILL FORECAST TO DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON AND WHILE THAT PROCESS HAS BEEN DELAYED SLIGHTLY...IT SHOULD BEGIN BY 2 PM. 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. $$ MAZ019-021-022-131730- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-080513T1600Z/ EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PLYMOUTH...MATTAPOISETT...CHATHAM... FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN 1226 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE STRONGEST BURST OF WIND HAS ALREADY OCCURRED NEAR CAPE COD AND THE ADVISORY IN NO LONGER IN EFFECT THERE. $$ RIZ004-007-131800- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0018.080513T1626Z-080513T1800Z/ EASTERN KENT RI-NEWPORT RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARWICK...NEWPORT 1226 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST NEW ENGLAND COAST HAS BEEN EXTENDED INTO FAR EASTERN RHODE ISLAND. AT NOON NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WERE STILL BLOWING AT ADVISORY CRITERIA WITH SUSTAINED VALUES NEAR 30 MPH AND GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. THESE WINDS ARE STILL FORECAST TO DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON AND WHILE THAT PROCESS HAS BEEN DELAYED SLIGHTLY...IT SHOULD BEGIN BY 2 PM. 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. $$ DRAG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:16 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 6 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.