Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2011, 6:57 AM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 73 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2011, 6:57 AM EST (11:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2011, 8:10 AM EST
- In force
- 73 min
- 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 11:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 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
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 616 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846 WWUS71 KBOX 061157 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 657 AM EST SUN FEB 6 2011 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST NEW ENGLAND COAST THROUGH MID MORNING... MAZ022>024-061600- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110206T1400Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.110206T1157Z-110206T1600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 657 AM EST SUN FEB 6 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 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 11 AM EST THIS MORNING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * LOCATIONS...CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OVER 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. DAMAGE IS MOST LIKELY IN EXPOSED AREAS. 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. $$ MAZ019>021-RIZ006>008-061300- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-110206T1400Z/ EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA- WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PLYMOUTH...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD... MATTAPOISETT...NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND 657 AM EST SUN FEB 6 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND. WINDS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO SUBSIDE AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO THIS MORNING. THEREFORE THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ DOODY
1 follow-up statement
822 WWUS71 KBOX 061310 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 810 AM EST SUN FEB 6 2011 MAZ022>024-061415- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-110206T1600Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 810 AM EST SUN FEB 6 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD...AND NANTUCKET. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS BELOW 31 MPH SUSTAINED...46 MPH GUSTS...SO THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH INTO THE AFTERNOON. $$ SIPPRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 9:46 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:10 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 2 hr | |
| Feb 6, 9:32 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 16 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.