Alert archive / Massachusetts / High Wind Warnings in 2013
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high wind warning at Feb 7, 2013, 4:31 PM EST for Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 8, 2013, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2013, 4:31 PM EST (21:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 8, 2013, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2013, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 6:00 PM EST | NON-TSTM WND GST 59 | 2 Ese Nantucket, MA | ASOS |
| Feb 8, 8:00 PM EST | NON-TSTM WND GST 63 | 2 Ese Nantucket, MA | ASOS |
| Feb 8, 8:42 PM EST | NON-TSTM WND GST 69 | 2 Ese Nantucket, MA | |
| Feb 8, 8:43 PM EST | HIGH SUST WINDS 47 | 2 Ese Nantucket, MA | |
| Feb 9, 10:18 AM EST | COASTAL FLOOD | Nantucket, MA | EASY AND WASHINGTON STREETS FLOODED. WATER DEPTH ON WASHINGTON STREET 2 TO 3 FEET |
| Feb 9, 10:47 AM EST | COASTAL FLOOD | Nantucket, MA | WAUWINTET ROAD NEAR EAT FIRE SPRINGS ROAD FLOODED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
454 WWUS71 KBOX 072131 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 431 PM EST THU FEB 7 2013 ...NEAR HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL IMPACT NANTUCKET FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY... MAZ024-080545- /O.NEW.KBOX.HW.W.0002.130208T1800Z-130210T0000Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 431 PM EST THU FEB 7 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING FROM 1 PM FRIDAY TO 7 PM EST SATURDAY... * WINDS...NORTHEAST 30 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. * TIMING...FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ SIPPRELL
6 follow-up statements
528 WWUS71 KBOX 080927 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 427 AM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 MAZ024-081730- /O.NEW.KBOX.HW.W.0002.130208T1800Z-130210T0000Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 427 AM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST SATURDAY. * WINDS...NORTHEAST 30 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. * TIMING...TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ RLG
995 WWUS71 KBOX 081708 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1208 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 MAZ024-090115- /O.CON.KBOX.HW.W.0002.130208T1800Z-130210T0000Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 1208 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST SATURDAY... * WINDS...NORTHEAST 30 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 75 MPH. * TIMING...TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ SIPPRELL
395 WWUS71 KBOX 082123 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 423 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 MAZ024-090530- /O.CON.KBOX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130210T0000Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 423 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST SATURDAY... * WINDS...NORTH 35 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 75 MPH. * TIMING...TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ SIPPRELL
401 WWUS71 KBOX 090349 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1049 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 MAZ024-091200- /O.CON.KBOX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130210T0000Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 1049 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST SATURDAY... * WINDS...NORTH 40 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ RLG
241 WWUS71 KBOX 090932 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 432 AM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 MAZ024-091700- /O.EXT.KBOX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130209T1700Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 432 AM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY... * WINDS...NORTH 45 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. * TIMING...HIGHEST WINDS ARE OCCURRING NOW AND WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ RLG
063 WWUS71 KBOX 091538 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1038 AM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 MAZ024-091800- /O.EXT.KBOX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130209T1800Z/ NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET 1038 AM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... * WINDS...NORTHWEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS ARE OCCURRING NOW AND WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH BY EARLY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BRING DOWN TREES AND TREE LIMBS...RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BECOME AIRBORNE AND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IS ANTICIPATED. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR BOTH MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 4:21 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 3 hr | |
| Feb 7, 2:20 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more | 46 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:55 PM EST | Blizzard Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk and 3 more | 47 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:55 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Worcester | 44 hr |
| Feb 7, 4:08 PM EST | Hurricane Force Wind Warning | BOX | 42 hr | |
| Feb 7, 4:08 PM EST | Storm Warning | BOX | 47 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Massachusetts, 2013Every high wind warning in 2013
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.