Alert archive / Connecticut / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this wind advisory at Mar 17, 2011, 3:48 PM EDT for 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Mar 18, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2011, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2011, 3:14 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
121 WWUS71 KOKX 171948 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 348 PM EDT THU MAR 17 2011 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT FRIDAY... CTZ005>012-180900- /O.NEW.KOKX.WI.Y.0008.110318T1500Z-110318T2300Z/ NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- 348 PM EDT THU MAR 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM EDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM EDT FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT. * HAZARDS...STRONG...GUSTY WINDS. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. * TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 12PM AND 5PM FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...THESE WIND GUSTS COULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN SOME LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES...AS WELL AS WEAK AND SMALL TREES GIVEN THE MOIST SOIL. 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. && $$ GS
1 follow-up statement
782 WWUS71 KOKX 180714 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 314 AM EDT FRI MAR 18 2011 CTZ005>012-180815- /O.CAN.KOKX.WI.Y.0008.110318T1500Z-110318T2300Z/ NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- 314 AM EDT FRI MAR 18 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL BECOME GUSTY OUT OF THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON...WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE. THIS IS BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ MALOIT
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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.