Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Jan 12, 2011, 4:26 PM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2011, 4:26 PM EST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2011, 11:25 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 639 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
495 WWUS71 KBOX 122126 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 426 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS THROUGH THIS EVENING... MAZ022>024-130600- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110113T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0002.110112T2126Z-110113T0600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 426 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST THURSDAY... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST THURSDAY. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD AND MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET ISLAND IN MASSACHUSETTS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST SUSTAINED 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. * IMPACTS...WINDS WILL CREATE DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS ALONG WITH SLIPPERY ROADWAYS. LEFTOVER SLUSH WILL FREEZE OVERNIGHT ON UNTREATED SURFACES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL MEDIA...OR GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOX FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
620 WWUS71 KBOX 130425 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1125 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 MAZ022>024-130530- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-110113T0600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1125 PM EST WED JAN 12 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ RLG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 4:38 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 38 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.