Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 39, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Jan 1, 2009, 12:56 AM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2009, 12:56 AM EST (05:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2009, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 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 05:57 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 00:00Z, 5.9 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
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 010556 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1256 AM EST THU JAN 1 2009 MAZ022>024-011100- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0010.000000T0000Z-090101T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0039.090101T0556Z-090101T1100Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1256 AM EST THU JAN 1 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST EARLY THIS MORNING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST EARLY THIS MORNING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE WIND ADVISORY COVERS ALL OF CAPE COD...NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUED THROUGH 6 AM. SUSTAINED WINDS WILL BE BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. 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. $$ MAZ007-014>016-019>021-RIZ006>008-010700- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0038.000000T0000Z-090101T0600Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-SUFFOLK MA- EASTERN NORFOLK MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA- SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON... QUINCY...PLYMOUTH...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...MATTAPOISETT... NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND 1256 AM EST THU JAN 1 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THIS ADVISORY COVERED THE COASTAL AREAS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND. NORTHWEST WINDS ALONG THE COAST HAVE DIMINISHED EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT CONTINUE TO BE BLUSTERY. A FEW GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT. $$ EVT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 10:03 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 1:01 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 24 hr | |
| Jan 1, 1:01 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 3 days |
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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.