Alert archive / Alaska / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Jan 11, 2010, 5:48 PM AKST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2010, 5:48 PM AKST (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2010, 3:46 AM AKST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
552 WWAK72 PAFG 120248 NPWWCZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 548 PM AKST MON JAN 11 2010 AKZ215-121500- /X.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0003.100112T0248Z-100112T1500Z/ LOWER YUKON VALLEY- INCLUDING...MARSHALL...RUSSIAN MISSION...HOLY CROSS...GRAYLING... SHAGELUK...ANVIK..FLAT 548 PM AKST MON JAN 11 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM AKST TUESDAY FOR AREAS WEST OF RUSSIAN MISSION... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM AKST TUESDAY. LOCAL NORTHEAST WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT IN AREAS WEST OF RUSSIAN MISSION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY FOR THIS REGION MEANS THAT WINDS OF 40 TO 49 MPH ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. && $$
1 follow-up statement
081 WWAK72 PAFG 121246 NPWWCZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 346 AM AKST TUE JAN 12 2010 AKZ215-121400- /X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-100112T1500Z/ LOWER YUKON VALLEY- INCLUDING...MARSHALL...RUSSIAN MISSION...HOLY CROSS...GRAYLING... SHAGELUK...ANVIK..FLAT 346 AM AKST TUE JAN 12 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE WIND HAS GRADUALLY DIMINISHED OVERNIGHT...AND THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Jan 11, 1:12 PM AKST, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 1:12 PM AKST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 112 PM AKST MON JAN 11 2010 .DISCUSSION... MODELS VERY SIMILAR THROUGH 60 HOURS. IT APPEARS THAT THUS FAR THE ECMWF HAS BEEN MUCH CLOSER THAN THE GFS AND THE NAM ALTHOUGH THE NAM WAS CLOSER THAN THE GFS SO FAR. THE POOL OF COLD AIR IS CURRENTLY POISED OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE NORTHERN ALASKA. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW CURRENTLY OVER FAR WESTERN CANADA WILL PULL NORTHEASTWARD TO VICTORIA ISLAND IN THE CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PULL THE COLDEST AIR OUT OF NORTHEASTERN ALASKA TO RESIDE IN NORTHWESTERN CANADA. THEN APPROACHING OUT OF THE HIGH ARCTIC FROM NORTH OF WRANGELL ISLAND WILL BE THE NEXT SURGE OF COLD AIR ASSOCIATED WITH A DEEP UPPER LEVEL LOW. THIS WILL BRING COLD AIR INTO NORTHWESTERN ALASKA BY TUESDAY NIGHT AND THEN CONTINUE EASTWARD ON WEDNESDAY. THIS COLD AIR WILL POUR SOUTH OF THE BROOKS RANGE AND HAVE A MORE WESTERLY AFFECT THAN THE CURRENT COLD AIR BUBBLE IN EASTERN ALASKA. THE DEEP LOW IN THE GULF OF ALASKA COMBINED WITH THE HIGH OFF THE ARCTIC COAST IS CONTINUING TO PRODUCE A STRONG GRADIENT OVER CENTRAL ALASKA...PARTICULARLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN PASSES. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR AKZ216-AKZ223-AKZ225-AKZ226-AKZ227. WIND CHILL WARNING FOR AKZ201-AKZ202-AKZ203-AKZ204. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR AKZ215-AKZ220-AKZ221. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ210. && CF JAN 10
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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.