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Wind Chill Advisory 39, NWS Fairbanks, AK

December 25, 2010

NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 25, 2010, 3:12 AM AKST. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2010, 3:12 AM AKST (12:12 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2010, 1:13 PM AKST
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Fairbanks, AK

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 chill advisory went out at Dec 24, 3:53 PM AKST, 11 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 3:53 PM AKST, 11 hours 19 minutes before

NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
353 PM AKST FRI DEC 24 2010

.DISCUSSION...

FAIRLY STRONG AND/OR INCREASING PRESSURE GRADIENTS OVER MUCH
OF NORTHERN AK IN THE SHORT TERM...COMBINED WITH A QUITE COLD
AIRMASS OVER THE ARCTIC AND INTERIOR ZONES THAN IS SPREADING
OVER THE WEST COAST...WILL BE GIVING SOME WIND AND/OR WIND
CHILL PROBLEMS OVER MANY AREAS THIS SIDE OF THE BROOKS RANGE
FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. WE ARE NOT ABLE TO BRING THE INGREDIENTS
TOGETHER TO GENERATE MUCH IN THE WAY OF WIND CHILLS IN MOST
OF THE INTERIOR ZONES...BUT SOME PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP IN
THE WEST COAST ZONES TONIGHT...AND BECOME MUCH MORE WIDESPREAD
SATURDAY NIGHT. IN THE INTERIOR...MOST OF OUR CONCERNS CENTER
IN THE UPLANDS...WHERE BRISK WINDS WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME
PROBLEMS WITH BLOWING SNOW. THIS REGIME APPEARS TO BE UNUSUALLY
PERSISTENT.

NOT AS MUCH EXCITEMENT IN THE ARCTIC ZONES...THOUGH WE MAY
SEE EVENTUALLY SOME WIND CHILL AND BLOWING SNOW PROBLEMS IN ZONE
204...AND POSSIBLY IN ZONE 203.

COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE

&&

.AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR AKZ207-AKZ208-AKZ210-AKZ217.

HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY WARNING FOR PKZ210.

GALE WARNING FOR PKZ210-PKZ220.

BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ225.
&&

DJH DEC 10

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 24, 4:26 PM AKST	Wind Chill Advisory	AFG	11 hr
Dec 24, 9:02 PM AKST	Blizzard Warning	AFG	55 hr
Dec 25, 2:59 AM AKST	Brisk Wind Advisory	AFG	72 hr
Dec 25, 3:07 AM AKST	Winter Storm Warning	AFG	72 hr
Dec 25, 11:36 AM AKST	Winter Weather Advisory	AFG	64 hr
Dec 25, 1:51 PM AKST	Winter Weather Advisory	AFG	62 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.