Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2013
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 27, 2013, 11:09 AM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2013, 11:09 AM EST (16:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2013, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:11 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
301 WWUS71 KBOX 271609 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1109 AM EST WED FEB 27 2013 MAZ022>024-272100- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.130227T1609Z-130227T2100Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1109 AM EST WED FEB 27 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...EAST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 11 AM TO 4 PM TODAY. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES. DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
338 WWUS71 KBOX 272101 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 401 PM EST WED FEB 27 2013 MAZ022>024-280000- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-130227T2100Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0008.130227T2101Z-130228T0000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 401 PM EST WED FEB 27 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...FROM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES. DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 4:47 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 14 hr | |
| Feb 27, 4:01 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 3 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.