Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2013
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 9, 2013, 3:43 PM EST for Barnstable County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 2013, 3:43 PM EST (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2013, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
173 WWUS71 KBOX 092043 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 343 PM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 MAZ022-024-100200- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0004.130209T2043Z-130210T0200Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 343 PM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF BRINGING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES WITH ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$
1 follow-up statement
135 WWUS71 KBOX 100203 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 903 PM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 MAZ022-024-100315- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-130210T0200Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... NANTUCKET 903 PM EST SAT FEB 9 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ RLG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 8:57 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | BOX | 33 hr | |
| Feb 9, 4:31 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 23 hr | |
| Feb 9, 1:30 PM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:34 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 2 hr | |
| Feb 9, 6:35 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.