Alert archive / Connecticut / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 13, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this wind advisory at Oct 30, 2011, 1:08 AM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Nassau County, Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2011, 1:08 AM EDT (05:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2011, 3:56 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Nassau County, NY, Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1530 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
133 WWUS71 KOKX 300508 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 108 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...STRONG WINDS CONTINUE FOR LONG ISLAND AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT... CTZ007-008-010>012-NYZ078>081-177-179-301000- /O.CAN.KOKX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-111030T1000Z/ /O.NEW.KOKX.WI.Y.0013.111030T0508Z-111030T1000Z/ NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 108 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT EARLY THIS MORNING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT EARLY THIS MORNING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * LOCATIONS...PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND LONG ISLAND. * HAZARDS...STRONG WINDS. * WINDS...NORTH 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...OVERNIGHT. WINDS WILL DIMINISH TOWARD SUNRISE. * IMPACTS...WIDESPREAD DOWNED TREES AND POWER OUTAGES CAN BE EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE SNOWFALL ACCUMULATES. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED AS WELL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH... OR GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
775 WWUS71 KOKX 300756 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 356 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...WINDS SLOWLY DIMINISH TODAY... CTZ007-008-010>012-NYZ078>081-177-179-300900- /O.CAN.KOKX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-111030T1000Z/ NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 356 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. EVEN THOUGH GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY TODAY...WINDS REACHING WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...WHICH IS SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH...ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 3:57 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 17 hr |
| Oct 29, 9:30 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 18 hr | |
| Oct 30, 1:24 AM EDT | Gale Warning | OKX | 14 hr | |
| Oct 30, 3:50 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 8 hr | |
| Oct 30, 3:57 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 17 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Connecticut, 2011Wind Advisories in New York, 2011Every wind advisory in 2011
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.