Alert archive / Rhode Island / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Jan 12, 2011, 10:30 AM EST for Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2011, 10:30 AM EST (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2011, 1:12 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
539 WWUS71 KBOX 121530 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1030 AM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...AN INTENSIFYING COASTAL STORM WILL BRING STRONG WIND TO CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON... MAZ022>024-130100- /O.CON.KBOX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110113T0100Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1030 AM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON CONTINUES THE HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD AND MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET ISLAND IN MASSACHUSETTS. * WINDS...SHIFTING WINDS BECOMING NW 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON....THEN DIMINISH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY BRING DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES WITH SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOX FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$ RIZ008-121900- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0001.110112T1530Z-110112T1900Z/ BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BLOCK ISLAND 1030 AM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATIONS...BLOCK ISLAND * WINDS...NW WINDS GUSTING UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WIND THROUGH 2 PM TODAY...GRADUALLY DIMINISHING LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY CAUSE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOX FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$
1 follow-up statement
302 WWUS71 KBOX 121812 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 112 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...AN INTENSIFYING COASTAL STORM WILL BRING STRONG WIND TO CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS THIS AFTERNOON... RIZ008-121915- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-110112T1900Z/ BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BLOCK ISLAND 112 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR BLOCK ISLAND. GUSTY WEST WINDS UP TO 40 MPH WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON BUT THE THREAT FOR STRONG WINDS HAS DIMINISHED. $$ MAZ022>024-130100- /O.CON.KBOX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110113T0100Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 112 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON CONTINUES THE HIGH WIND WARNI UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD AND MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET ISLAND IN MASSACHUSETTS. * WINDS...SHIFTING WINDS FROM THE W BECOMING NW 30 TO 40 MPH WITH 50 TO 60 MPH GUSTS. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON....THEN DIMINISH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY BRING DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES WITH SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOX FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 3:55 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Washington | 16 hr |
Nearby
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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.