Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 28, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Nov 22, 2008, 1:32 AM EST for Barnstable County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Nov 22, 2008, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 2008, 1:32 AM EST (06:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 22, 2008, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -145 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 220632 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 132 AM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY... MAZ022-024-221445- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0028.081122T1200Z-081122T2200Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 132 AM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL ALLOW FOR WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. A FEW GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. 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. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 220852 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 352 AM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 ...WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY... MAZ022-024-221700- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0028.081122T1200Z-081122T2200Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 352 AM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL ALLOW FOR WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. A FEW GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$
000 WWUS71 KBOX 221636 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1136 AM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 MAZ022-024-222200- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0028.000000T0000Z-081122T2200Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 1136 AM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY COVERS CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. A FEW GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. 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. $$
000 WWUS71 KBOX 222203 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 503 PM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 MAZ022-024-222315- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0028.000000T0000Z-081122T2200Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 503 PM EST SAT NOV 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR BARNSTABLE COUNTY AND NANTUCKET IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AND CONTINUE TO DECREASE. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 5:05 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 32 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.