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Wind Advisory 38, NWS Honolulu, HI

November 13, 2012Kalawao County, Hawaii

NWS Honolulu, HI issued this wind advisory at Nov 13, 2012, 3:26 AM HST for Kalawao County, Hawaii. It took effect at Nov 13, 2012, 6:00 AM HST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 13, 2012, 3:26 AM HST (13:26 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 13, 2012, 6:00 AM HST
Expired: Nov 13, 2012, 3:44 PM HST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Honolulu, HI

County Kalawao County, HI

The radar

The Molokai radar (PHMO), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:26 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

Hilo, (PITO), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

338 
WWHW70 PHFO 131326
NPWHFO

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
326 AM HST TUE NOV 13 2012

...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT HALEAKALA...

HIZ022-140230-
/O.NEW.PHFO.WI.Y.0038.121113T1600Z-121114T1600Z/
HALEAKALA SUMMIT-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF...HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK ABOVE 6000 FEET
326 AM HST TUE NOV 13 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 AM HST
WEDNESDAY...

* WINDS...EAST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH.

* TIMING...STARTING THIS MORNING AND CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT

* IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY
  FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR...AND MOTORISTS
SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.

&&

$$

HOUSTON

1 follow-up statement

343 
WWHW70 PHFO 140144
NPWHFO

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
344 PM HST TUE NOV 13 2012

...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SUMMIT OF HALEAKALA IS CANCELLED...

HIZ022-140245-
/O.CAN.PHFO.WI.Y.0038.000000T0000Z-121114T1600Z/
HALEAKALA SUMMIT-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF...HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK ABOVE 6000 FEET
344 PM HST TUE NOV 13 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

WINDS ACROSS HALEAKALA SUMMIT ARE BELOW THE ADVISORY THRESHOLD OF 30
MPH. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BREEZY
CONDITIONS WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH
OF THE WEEK.

$$

BRAVENDER

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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.