Alert archive / Florida / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Key West, FL
NWS Key West, FL issued this wind advisory at Feb 12, 2012, 3:37 AM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 12, 2012, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2012, 3:37 AM EST (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2012, 11:08 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Key West, FL
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
155 WWUS72 KKEY 120837 NPWKEY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 337 AM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 FLZ076-077-121645- /O.NEW.KKEY.WI.Y.0001.120212T0900Z-120212T1700Z/ MONROE UPPER KEYS-MONROE MIDDLE KEYS- INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF...KEY LARGO...MARATHON 337 AM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE MIDDLE AND UPPER KEYS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING...THE DECREASE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE PEAK IN WINDS IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. * WINDS...WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS 35 TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING IN THE WIND ADVISORY AREA. REMAIN ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS WHICH MAY CAUSE DIFFICULTY IN MAINTAINING CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. WINDS WILL BE PARTICULARLY STRONG AND GUSTY ON OUR HIGH BRIDGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR FREQUENT GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND... ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES...WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
610 WWUS72 KKEY 121608 NPWKEY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 1108 AM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 FLZ076-077-121715- /O.CAN.KKEY.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-120212T1700Z/ MONROE UPPER KEYS-MONROE MIDDLE KEYS- INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF...KEY LARGO...MARATHON 1108 AM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$ KASPER
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.