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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Feb 8, 2013, 2:41 PM AKST. It took effect at Feb 9, 2013, 9:00 AM AKST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 2013, 2:41 PM AKST (23:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 9, 2013, 9:00 AM AKST
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2013, 8:54 PM AKST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
904 WWAK73 PAFG 082341 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 241 PM AKST FRI FEB 8 2013 AKZ225-091400- /X.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.130209T1800Z-130210T1500Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 241 PM AKST FRI FEB 8 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY TO 6 AM AKST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY TO 6 AM AKST SUNDAY. * LOCATION...IN PASSES. * WINDS...GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS DEVELOPING SATURDAY MORNING AND CONTINUING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. && $$ AKZ226-091400- /X.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.130209T1800Z-130210T2100Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 241 PM AKST FRI FEB 8 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY TO NOON AKST SUNDAY WEST OF THE TOK CUTOFF... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY TO NOON AKST SUNDAY. * LOCATION...IN PASSES WEST OF THE TOK CUTOFF. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS GUSTING 50 TO 60 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS DEVELOPING SATURDAY MORNING AND STRONGEST SATURDAY NIGHT THEN DIMINISHING SOME SUNDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. && $$ JL FEB 13
3 follow-up statements
042 WWAK73 PAFG 091247 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 347 AM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 AKZ225-100100- /X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.130209T1800Z-130211T0000Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 347 AM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM AKST SUNDAY IN PASSES... * LOCATION...IN PASSES. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS GUSTING TO 65 MPH. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS DEVELOPING THIS MORNING AND CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. && $$ AKZ226-100100- /X.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.130209T1800Z-130211T0000Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 347 AM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM AKST SUNDAY WEST OF THE TOK CUTOFF... * LOCATION...IN PASSES WEST OF THE TOK CUTOFF. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS DEVELOPING THIS MORNING AND CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. && $$
457 WWAK73 PAFG 092346 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 246 PM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 AKZ225-100615- /X.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-130211T0000Z/ DENALI- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA 246 PM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM AKST SUNDAY IN PASSES... * LOCATION...IN PASSES. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS GUSTING TO 65 MPH. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. && $$ AKZ226-100615- /X.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-130211T0000Z/ EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 246 PM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM AKST SUNDAY WEST OF THE TOK CUTOFF... * LOCATION...IN PASSES WEST OF THE TOK CUTOFF. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. && $$
549 WWAK73 PAFG 100554 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 854 PM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 AKZ225-226-100700- /X.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-130211T0000Z/ DENALI-EASTERN ALASKA RANGE- INCLUDING...HEALY...DENALI NATIONAL PARK...CARLO CREEK... KANTISHNA...MENTASTA LAKE...BLACK RAPIDS...DONNELLY DOME... TRIMS CAMP...EAGLE TRAIL...MINERAL LAKE 854 PM AKST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS DO NOT REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Feb 8, 2:36 PM AKST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 2:36 PM AKST, 5 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 236 PM AKST FRI FEB 8 2013 .DISCUSSION... ALOFT...TROUGH FROM THE CHUKCHI SEA SOUTH TO THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS WILL PERSIST WHILE A LOW 60 MILES WEST OF LISBURNE MOVES TO SAINT MATTHEW ISLAND 9AM SUN THEN TO 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NOME 3PM MON. COLD AIR IN THIS LOW MOVING SOUTH OVER THE OUTER WEST COAST OF ALASKA. LIGHT SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER INTERIOR BECOMING MODERATE SOUTHERLY BY 9AM SAT WITH CHINOOK FLOW ACROSS ALASKA RANGE WHILE A STRONG SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVES NORTH OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA THROUGH SUNDAY. SEVERAL WEAKER SHORT WAVES MOVING NORTH OVER THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF ALASKA TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. SURFACE....988 MB LOW NEAR THE PRIBILOFS DISSIPATING BY 3AM SAT. ASSOCIATED OCCLUSION ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALASKA IS TIED TO A PREVIOUS LOW AND OCCLUSION NOW MOVING EAST OVER THE EASTERN INTERIOR. THE FEATURE OVER THE EASTERN INTERIOR WILL CONTINUE EAST INTO CANADA THROUGH THIS EVENING. A 965 MB LOW WILL MOVE NORTH TOWARD THE SOUTHERN ALASKA PENINSULA OVERNIGHT AND THE ASSOCIATED OCCLUSION WILL MOVE TO KING SALMON TO KODIAK 3AM SAT...THEN TO BETHEL TO VALDEZ 3PM SAT. THE LOW WILL MOVE TO NEAR ANIAK 3AM SUN WITH THE OCCLUSION EXTENDING EAST AND DISSIPATING. MODELS...NAM AND GFS AND ECMWF IN GOOD AGREEMENT ALOFT THROUGH SUN NIGHT...AFTER WHICH NAM CURVES THE UPPER LOW IN THE BERING FARTHER WEST..PREFER THE GFS AND ECMWF IN THIS REGARD THOUGH IT DOES BEAR WATCHING AS THE TELLING FACTOR WILL BE WHERE THE ASSOCIATED POOL OF COLD AIR WILLA ACTUALLY MOVE TO. NORTH SLOPE...NORTHEAST WINDS INCREASING SATURDAY AS OCCLUSION MOVES OVER SOUTHERN ALASKA. WIND CHILL ADVISORIES MAY DEVELOP DURING THE DAY BUT BY SAT NIGHT ENOUGH CLOUDS MAY MOVE TO WARM THINGS UP...THIS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. WESTERN ALASKA...AS CLOUDS SPREAD NORTH TONIGHT AND EARLY SAT EXPECT WIND CHILL ADVISORIES TO END. THE WARM ADVECTION AHEAD OF THE LOW MOVING TOWARD THE ALASKA PENINSULA WILL PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL OVER THE SOUTHWEST AREA NAMELY THE YUKON DELTA...LOWER YUKON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN NULATO HILLS. EXPECT AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 8 INCHES FROM THIS SYSTEM. EXPECT LOCAL BLIZZARD CONDITIONS OVER THE YUKON DELTA AS WELL. WILL ISSUE WINTER STORM WARNINGS FOR THESE ZONES. SNOW WILL ALSO SPREAD NORTH WITH 3 TO 5 INCHES AT NOME WESTWARD AND 2 TO 4 INCHES NEAR KOTZEBUE. EXPECT NORTH WINDS TO INCREASE OVER SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND WATERS SATURDAY AND AT LEAST BLOWING SNOW ADVISORIES MAY BE WARRANTED THERE LATER IN THE DAY...OR POSSIBLY BLIZZARD WARNINGS AS THERE IS GOOD COLD AIR ADVECTION OVER THE AREA AS THE UPPER LOW DROPS SOUTH. CENTRAL AND EASTERN INTERIOR...LIGHT SNOW TURNING TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS AND ENDING FROM THE WEST NEXT 12 HOURS. WINDS PICKING UP THROUGH ALASKA RANGE PASSES AND EXPECT GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH WHICH WILL EXTEND INTO SUN MORNING FOR THE EASTERN PORTION...SO WILL HAVE WIND ADVISORIES OUT BEGINNING SAT MID MORNING FOR BOTH ALASKA RANGE ZONES. TEMPS WARING INTO THE 20S BOTH DAYS AROUND FAIRBANKS...AND EVEN WARMER IN THE HILLS AND BROAD PASS. AS UPPER LEVEL WINDS DIMINISH AND TURN SOUTHWEST SUNDAY ITS POSSIBLE A PERIOD OF SNOW WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE INTERIOR. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR AKZ207-AKZ210-AKZ213. WINTER STORM WARNING FOR AKZ212-AKZ214-AKZ215. WIND ADVISORY FOR AKZ225-AKZ226. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ210-PKZ220-PKZ225-PKZ230- PKZ240-PKZ245. && JL FEB 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 3:09 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 23 hr | |
| Feb 8, 3:53 AM AKST | Wind Chill Advisory | AFG | 8 hr | |
| Feb 8, 2:23 PM AKST | Winter Storm Warning | AFG | 54 hr | |
| Feb 8, 2:34 PM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 60 hr | |
| Feb 8, 2:35 PM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 60 hr |
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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.