Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Jan 22, 2008, 12:00 PM EST for 5 counties in Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 22, 2008, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2008, 12:00 PM EST (17:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 22, 2008, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2008, 4:22 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 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 221700 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1200 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 MAZ022>024-222300- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0003.080122T1800Z-080122T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1200 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 ...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. A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG WINDS IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE CAPE AND ISLANDS. STRONGEST WINDS SHOULD OCCUR BETWEEN 1PM AND 4 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. $$ DRAG
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 221824 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 124 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 MAZ013-015-016-222000- /O.EXB.KBOX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080122T2000Z/ WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FOXBORO...NORWOOD...BOSTON...QUINCY 124 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WINDS IN THE BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ADVISORY IS POSTED FOR SPOTTY SOUTHWEST SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH IN OR NEAR BOSTON EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH ISOLATED GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. A WIND GUST TO 54 MPH OCCURRED HIGH ATOP THE BLUE HILLS IN MILTON...JUST SOUTHWEST OF BOSTON AT 1227 PM. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ MAZ022>024-222300- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080122T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 124 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG WINDS IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE CAPE AND ISLANDS. STRONGEST WINDS SHOULD OCCUR BETWEEN 1PM AND 4 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. $$ DRAG
000 WWUS71 KBOX 222122 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 422 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 MAZ022>024-222230- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080122T2300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 422 PM EST TUE JAN 22 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. STRONGEST WINDS HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED AND THE ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE HIGHEST 2 MINUTE SUSTAINED WIND ON THE CAPE AND ISLANDS WAS 31 MPH RECORDED AT THE NANTUCKET AIRPORT AROUND 323 PM. BLUE HILL HAD THE HIGHEST GUST IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...54 MPH RECORDED AT 1227 PM. $$ DRAG
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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.