Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 11, 2010, 3:20 AM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2010, 3:20 AM EST (08:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2010, 8:58 AM EST
- In force
- 6 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 08:18 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, 8.3 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
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 905 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751 WWUS71 KBOX 110820 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 320 AM EST THU FEB 11 2010 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EARLY THIS MORNING... MAZ022>024-111400- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-100211T1000Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0009.100211T0820Z-100211T1400Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 320 AM EST THU FEB 11 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST THIS MORNING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST THIS MORNING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS WIND ADVISORY IS FOR THE CAPE AND ISLANDS. LOW PRESSURE WILL GRADUALLY MOVE AWAY FROM SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TODAY. NORTHERLY WINDS MAY GUST AROUND 50 MPH EARLY THIS MORNING BEFORE DIMINISHING. 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. && $$ MAZ018-019-021-110930- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-100211T1000Z/ WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH...MATTAPOISETT 320 AM EST THU FEB 11 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
1 follow-up statement
887 WWUS71 KBOX 111358 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 858 AM EST THU FEB 11 2010 MAZ022>024-111500- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-100211T1400Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 858 AM EST THU FEB 11 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE WIND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES AWAY FROM THE REGION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 12:53 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Norfolk, Plymouth | 2 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:22 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 48 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.