Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 22, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Oct 30, 2011, 10:17 AM EDT for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2011, 10:17 AM EDT (14:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2011, 3:59 PM EDT
- 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 14:21 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 12:00Z, 2.3 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
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 102 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
363 WWUS71 KBOX 301417 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1017 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE CAPE AND ISLANDS... MAZ022>024-302100- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-111030T1800Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0022.111030T1417Z-111030T2100Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1017 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD...AND NANTUCKET. * HAZARDS...DAMAGING NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS ON THE CAPE AND ISLANDS UNTIL 5 PM... THEN DIMINISHING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BRING DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...RESULTING IN POWER OUTAGES. DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ALSO POSSIBLE. 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. && $$ RIZ008-301530- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-111030T1800Z/ BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BLOCK ISLAND 1017 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WHILE GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON PERIOD... THEY WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND ADVISORY THRESHOLD OF 45 MPH. $$ SIPPRELL
1 follow-up statement
188 WWUS71 KBOX 301959 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 359 PM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 MAZ022>024-302100- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-111030T2100Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 359 PM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. ALTHOUGH WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY THRESHOLDS... THERE WILL STILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS INTO THE EARLY EVENING PERIOD. $$ SIPPRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 4:02 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 17 hr | |
| Oct 30, 1:45 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 21 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.