Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 48, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Mar 2, 2009, 6:36 AM EST for Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2009, 6:36 AM EST (11:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2009, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:40 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 021136 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 636 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009 MAZ024-021945- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0048.090302T1136Z-090302T2000Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 636 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...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. NORTHEAST WINDS 0F 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. A FEW WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBOX 021953 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 253 PM EST MON MAR 2 2009 MAZ024-022300- /O.EXT.KBOX.WI.Y.0048.000000T0000Z-090302T2300Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 253 PM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. NANTUCKET RECORDED A GUST TO 48 MPH AT 920 AM. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. $$ DRAG
000 WWUS71 KBOX 022300 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 600 PM EST MON MAR 2 2009 MAZ024-030000- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0048.000000T0000Z-090302T2300Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 600 PM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THIS ADVISORY COVERED NANTUCKET. NORTH WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS THE ISLAND. THE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GUST TONIGHT...REACHING VALUES OF UP TO 35 MPH. $$ WTB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:36 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 237 days | |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 237 days | |
| Mar 2, 8:13 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 237 days | |
| Mar 2, 4:01 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 66 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.