Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2010, 4:16 AM EST for Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 6, 2010, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2010, 4:16 AM EST (09:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2010, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2010, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 9 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 09:15 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, 9.3 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
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
270 WWUS71 KBOX 060916 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 416 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 MAZ024-061730- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.100206T2100Z-100207T0300Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 416 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. NORTH NORTHEAST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH FOR A TIME LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING AS A MAJOR WINTER STORM MOVES WELL SOUTH OF NANTUCKET. GUSTS MAY BRIEFLY TOP OUT AROUND 45 MPH LATE TODAY. WINDS WILL TURN NORTHWESTERLY OVERNIGHT AND DIMINISH A BIT BUT WIND CHILL FACTORS ARE LIKELY TO DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS BY DAYBREAK SUNDAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
299 WWUS71 KBOX 061537 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1037 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 MAZ024-062345- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.100206T2100Z-100207T0300Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 1037 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. NORTH NORTHEAST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH FOR A TIME LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING AS A MAJOR WINTER STORM MOVES WELL SOUTH OF NANTUCKET. GUSTS MAY BRIEFLY TOP OUT AROUND 45 MPH LATE TODAY. WINDS WILL TURN NORTHWESTERLY OVERNIGHT AND DIMINISH A BIT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$
667 WWUS71 KBOX 062044 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 344 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 MAZ024-070300- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.100206T2100Z-100207T0300Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 344 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. THIS WIND ADVISORY IS FOR NANTUCKET ISLAND. NORTH NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE LATE EVENING HOURS. THE WINDS SHOULD SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND DIMINISH A TAD AFTER MIDNIGHT...ALTHOUGH IT WILL REMAIN WINDY. WINDS WILL TURN NORTHWESTERLY OVERNIGHT AND DIMINISH A BIT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
427 WWUS71 KBOX 070259 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 959 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 MAZ024-070600- /O.EXT.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-100207T0600Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 959 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST SUNDAY... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST SUNDAY. THIS WIND ADVISORY IS FOR NANTUCKET ISLAND. NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL ABOUT 1 AM. THE WINDS SHOULD TURN TO THE NORTHWEST AND DIMINISH A TAD DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS....ALTHOUGH IT WILL REMAIN WINDY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$ FIELD
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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.