Alert archive / Hawaii / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this wind advisory at Jan 16, 2011, 5:56 PM HST for Honolulu County, Kauai County, Hawaii. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2011, 5:56 PM HST (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2011, 8:14 PM HST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
Counties Honolulu County, HI, Kauai County, HI
The radar
The South Kauai radar (PHKI), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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
Lihue, (PHLI), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
887 WWHW70 PHFO 170356 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 556 PM HST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT... .SURFACE AND RADAR OBSERVATIONS INDICATE STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AFFECTING KAUAI AND OAHU...ASSOCIATED WITH A PASSING FRONT. WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG AND GUSTY THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH WINDS GRADUALLY DIMINISHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. HIZ001>011-171000- /O.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0006.110117T0356Z-110117T1000Z/ NIIHAU-KAUAI WINDWARD-KAUAI LEEWARD-KAUAI MOUNTAINS- OAHU SOUTH SHORE-WAIANAE COAST-OAHU NORTH SHORE-OAHU KOOLAU- OLOMANA-CENTRAL OAHU-WAIANAE MOUNTAINS- 556 PM HST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HST TONIGHT. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE STRONG AND GUSTY THIS EVENING...AS A FRONT PASSES KAUAI AND OAHU. SUSTAINED WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE NEAR 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ BIRCHARD
1 follow-up statement
242 WWHW70 PHFO 170614 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 814 PM HST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT... .SURFACE AND RADAR OBSERVATIONS INDICATE STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AFFECTING MOLOKAI AND LANAI ASSOCIATED WITH A PASSING FRONT. WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG AND GUSTY THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH WINDS DIMINISHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. HIZ001>011-170715- /O.CAN.PHFO.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-110117T1000Z/ NIIHAU-KAUAI WINDWARD-KAUAI LEEWARD-KAUAI MOUNTAINS- OAHU SOUTH SHORE-WAIANAE COAST-OAHU NORTH SHORE-OAHU KOOLAU- OLOMANA-CENTRAL OAHU-WAIANAE MOUNTAINS- 814 PM HST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED. $$ HIZ012>015-171000- /O.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0007.110117T0614Z-110117T1000Z/ MOLOKAI WINDWARD-MOLOKAI LEEWARD-LANAI MAKAI-LANAI MAUKA- 814 PM HST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HST TONIGHT. WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ WROE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Honolulu, HI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2:37 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 113 min | |
| Jan 16, 2:45 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 62 min | |
| Jan 16, 4:03 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 57 min | |
| Jan 16, 5:11 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 72 min | |
| Jan 16, 5:42 PM HST | Areal Flood Advisory | HFO | Honolulu | 103 min |
| Jan 16, 7:11 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 64 min | |
| Jan 16, 8:09 PM HST | Special Marine Warning | HFO | 53 min | |
| Jan 16, 8:14 PM HST | Wind Advisory | HFO | Kalawao | 2 hr |
| Jan 16, 10:19 PM HST | Winter Weather Advisory | HFO | Hawaii | 10 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:02 AM HST | High Surf Advisory | HFO | Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai | 43 hr |
Nearby
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.