Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 27, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Dec 19, 2011, 3:54 AM EST for Barnstable County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Dec 19, 2011, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2011, 3:54 AM EST (08:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 19, 2011, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2011, 11:16 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
574 WWUS71 KBOX 190854 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 354 AM EST MON DEC 19 2011 MAZ022-024-191700- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0027.111219T2100Z-111220T0600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 354 AM EST MON DEC 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST TUESDAY. * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET. * HAZARDS...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY DOWN TREE LIMBS RESULTING IN ISOLATED 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. && $$ RLG
3 follow-up statements
545 WWUS71 KBOX 191613 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1113 AM EST MON DEC 19 2011 MAZ022-024-200015- /O.EXT.KBOX.WI.Y.0027.111219T2000Z-111220T0600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 1113 AM EST MON DEC 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST TUESDAY... * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD AND NANTUCKET. * HAZARDS...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY DOWN TREE LIMBS RESULTING IN ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$
369 WWUS71 KBOX 192043 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 343 PM EST MON DEC 19 2011 MAZ022-024-200445- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0027.000000T0000Z-111220T0600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 343 PM EST MON DEC 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST TUESDAY... * LOCATIONS...OUTER CAPE AND NANTUCKET. * HAZARDS...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FROM 6 PM TO MIDNIGHT. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY DOWN TREE LIMBS RESULTING IN ISOLATED 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. && $$
698 WWUS71 KBOX 200416 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1116 PM EST MON DEC 19 2011 MAZ022-024-200530- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0027.000000T0000Z-111220T0600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 1116 PM EST MON DEC 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. GUSTY WINDS CONTINUE TO DIMINISH SLIGHTLY AS BECOME WEST LATE THIS EVENING. WHILE GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY...SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS ARE NOT LONGER EXPECTED TO BE GREATER THAN 30 MPH OVERNIGHT. GUSTS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO BE GREATER THAN 45 MPH AS WELL. $$ BELK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 3:52 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 36 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.