Alert archive / Hawaii / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this wind advisory at Mar 27, 2012, 7:22 AM HST for Hawaii County, Hawaii. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2012, 7:22 AM HST (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2012, 3:26 AM HST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Honolulu, HI
County Hawaii County, HI
The radar
The South Shore radar (PHWA), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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
Hilo, (PITO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WWHW70 PHFO 271722 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 722 AM HST TUE MAR 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR SUMMITS OF MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA... HIZ028-280630- /O.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0016.120327T1722Z-120328T1600Z/ BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA ABOVE 8000 FEET 722 AM HST TUE MAR 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST WEDNESDAY. * WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CRAIG
2 follow-up statements
473 WWHW70 PHFO 280133 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 333 PM HST TUE MAR 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR SUMMITS OF MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA... HIZ028-281445- /O.CON.PHFO.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-120328T1600Z/ BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA ABOVE 8000 FEET 333 PM HST TUE MAR 27 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST WEDNESDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST WEDNESDAY. * WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CRAIG
458 WWHW70 PHFO 281326 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 326 AM HST WED MAR 28 2012 HIZ028-281430- /O.CAN.PHFO.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-120328T1600Z/ BIG ISLAND SUMMITS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA ABOVE 8000 FEET 326 AM HST WED MAR 28 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE ON THE BIG ISLAND SUMMITS THIS MORNING. $$
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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.