Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Dec 27, 2012, 11:38 AM EST for Essex County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Dec 27, 2012, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2012, 11:38 AM EST (16:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2012, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2012, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Essex County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:42 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 831 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1080 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
080 WWUS71 KBOX 271638 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1138 AM EST THU DEC 27 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING EXPIRED BUT GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING... .THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE MOVED NORTH OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST TO 35 TO 40 MPH ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. A FEW WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 50 MPH MAY OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS CAPE ANN. MAZ007-280045- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0016.121227T2000Z-121228T0200Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...GLOUCESTER 1138 AM EST THU DEC 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM EST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...THEN DIMINISHING. * IMPACTS...WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE COULD BRING DOWN NUMEROUS SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED BRANCHES. ISOLATED NEW POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. 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. && $$ THOMPSON
1 follow-up statement
542 WWUS71 KBOX 272052 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 352 PM EST THU DEC 27 2012 ...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS... .NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST BETWEEN 45 AND 50 MPH AT TIMES THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING ACROSS EASTERN ESSEX COUNTY...INCLUDING CAPE ANN. MAZ007-280200- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-121228T0200Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...GLOUCESTER 352 PM EST THU DEC 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...NORTH TO NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...THEN SLOWLY DIMINISHING. * IMPACTS...WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE COULD BRING DOWN NUMEROUS SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED BRANCHES. ISOLATED NEW POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$ THOMPSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 10:04 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 38 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Massachusetts, 2012Every wind advisory in 2012
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.