Alert archive / Hawaii / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 29, NWS Honolulu, HI
NWS Honolulu, HI issued this wind advisory at Jul 8, 2012, 12:30 PM HST for Hawaii County, Hawaii. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2012, 12:30 PM HST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2012, 6:55 PM HST
- In force
- 6 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 22:32 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, 10.5 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
635 WWHW70 PHFO 082230 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1230 PM HST SUN JUL 8 2012 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR WAIKOLOA AND KAMUELA AREAS... .STRONG WINDS WILL REACH ADVISORY LEVELS FROM KAMUELA DOWN TO WAIKOLOA. HIZ026-090600- /O.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0029.120708T2230Z-120709T0600Z/ KOHALA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...WAIKOLOA 1230 PM HST SUN JUL 8 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM HST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM HST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM HST THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DRIVING WILL BE DIFFICULT DUE TO STRONG GUSTS AND BLOWING DUST ALONG QUEEN KAAHUMANU HIGHWAY...MAMALAHOA HIGHWAY...KAWAIHAE ROAD AND WAIKOLOA ROAD. 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. && $$ FOSTER
2 follow-up statements
739 WWHW70 PHFO 090111 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 311 PM HST SUN JUL 8 2012 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR WAIKOLOA AND KAMUELA AREAS... .STRONG WINDS WILL REACH ADVISORY LEVELS FROM KAMUELA DOWN TO WAIKOLOA. HIZ026-090600- /O.CON.PHFO.WI.Y.0029.000000T0000Z-120709T0600Z/ KOHALA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...WAIKOLOA 311 PM HST SUN JUL 8 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM HST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM HST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM HST THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DRIVING WILL BE DIFFICULT DUE TO STRONG GUSTS AND BLOWING DUST ALONG QUEEN KAAHUMANU HIGHWAY...MAMALAHOA HIGHWAY...KAWAIHAE ROAD AND WAIKOLOA ROAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ FOSTER
191 WWHW70 PHFO 090455 NPWHFO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 655 PM HST SUN JUL 8 2012 HIZ026-090600- /O.CAN.PHFO.WI.Y.0029.000000T0000Z-120709T0600Z/ KOHALA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...WAIKOLOA 655 PM HST SUN JUL 8 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED FOR NOW. $$
Nearby
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.