Alert archive / Florida / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Key West, FL
NWS Key West, FL issued this wind advisory at Jan 20, 2008, 5:15 PM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 2008, 5:15 PM EST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2008, 9:39 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Key West, FL
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KKEY 202215 NPWKEY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 515 PM EST SUN JAN 20 2008 ...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS... .A ROBUST AND SIZABLE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES WILL EXPAND SOUTHWARD ACROSS FLORIDA TONIGHT. THIS AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR STRONG AND GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST SURFACE WINDS TONIGHT. FLZ076>078-210900- /O.NEW.KKEY.WI.Y.0002.080120T2215Z-080121T0900Z/ MONROE UPPER KEYS-MONROE MIDDLE KEYS-MONROE LOWER KEYS- INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF...KEY LARGO...MARATHON...KEY WEST 515 PM EST SUN JAN 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST MONDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR ONE HOUR OR LONGER. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES... WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ BS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS72 KKEY 210239 NPWKEY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 940 PM EST SUN JAN 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED... FLZ076-077-078-210255- /O.CAN.KKEY.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080121T0900Z/ MONROE UPPER KEYS-MONROE MIDDLE KEYS-MONROE LOWER KEYS- INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF...KEY LARGO...MARATHON...KEY WEST 940 PM EST SUN JAN 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED... SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW 30 MPH FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. AS A RESULT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY...WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE FLORIDA KEYS. BE THAT AS IT MAY...NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL GUST TO NEAR 35 MPH AT TIMES TONIGHT. THESE WIND GUSTS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES. $$ BS
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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.