Alert archive / Washington / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Seattle, WA
NWS Seattle, WA issued this wind advisory at Feb 14, 2011, 2:39 PM PST for San Juan County, Washington. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2011, 2:39 PM PST (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2011, 9:00 PM PST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Seattle, WA
County San Juan County, WA
The radar
The Seattle radar (KATX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
194 WWUS76 KSEW 142239 NPWSEW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 239 PM PST MON FEB 14 2011 .WINDS ALONG THE COAST WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INLAND. WHILE WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT IN THE NORTH INTERIOR...STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. WAZ001-503-506-510-150500- /O.CAN.KSEW.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110215T0800Z/ /O.NEW.KSEW.WI.Y.0005.110214T2239Z-110215T0500Z/ SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY- ADMIRALTY INLET AREA- 239 PM PST MON FEB 14 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PST THIS EVENING FOR THE NORTHERN INTERIOR OF WESTERN WASHINGTON... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THIS AREA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHERN INTERIOR OF WESTERN WASHINGTON...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PST THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THIS AREA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS...THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS...WESTERN WHATCOM AND SKAGIT COUNTIES...WHIDBEY ISLAND...CAMANO ISLAND... THE ADMIRALTY INLET AREA. * INCLUDING THE CITIES OF FRIDAY HARBOR...BELLINGHAM... BURLINGTON...ANACORTES...OAK HARBOR...COUPEVILLE AND PORT TOWNSEND. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH LOCAL GUSTS TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED EARLY THIS EVENING UNTIL A COLD FRONT IN THE COASTAL WATERS MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. WINDS WILL DIMINISH TO SOUTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE LIKELY. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN SNAP SMALL TREE BRANCHES...TOPPLE SMALL OR SHALLOW-ROOTED TREES...AND CAUSE LOCAL POWER OUTAGES. && $$ WAZ516-517-142345- /O.CAN.KSEW.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110215T0800Z/ NORTH COAST-CENTRAL COAST- 239 PM PST MON FEB 14 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE NORTH AND CENTRAL WASHINGTON COAST... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE THE NORTH AND CENTRAL WASHINGTON COAST. A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED ONSHORE THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING WITH SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$ ALBRECHT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:09 PM PST | Gale Warning | SEW | 27 hr | |
| Feb 13, 9:09 PM PST | Storm Warning | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Feb 14, 4:00 AM PST | Flood Watch | SEW | Mason | 10 hr |
| Feb 14, 4:00 AM PST | High Wind Warning | SEW | San Juan | 11 hr |
| Feb 14, 4:00 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | SEW | 11 hr | |
| Feb 14, 1:54 PM PST | River Flood Advisory | SEW | Mason | 22 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.