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Wind Advisory 46, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Dec 27, 2014, 5:29 AM AKST. It took effect at Dec 28, 2014, 12:00 AM AKST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2014, 5:29 AM AKST (14:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 28, 2014, 12:00 AM AKST
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2014, 2:01 PM AKST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
701 WWAK72 PAFG 271429 NPWWCZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 529 AM AKST SAT DEC 27 2014 AKZ217-280000- /O.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0046.141228T0900Z-141228T1500Z/ UPPER KOBUK AND NOATAK VALLEYS- INCLUDING...AMBLER...SHUNGNAK...KOBUK 529 AM AKST SAT DEC 27 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM AKST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM AKST SUNDAY. * LOCATION...UPPER NOATAK VALLEY. * WINDS...GUSTS TO 40 MPH THROUGH PASSES. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
108 WWAK72 PAFG 272223 NPWWCZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 123 PM AKST SAT DEC 27 2014 AKZ227-281500- /O.NEW.PAFG.HW.W.0014.141228T1500Z-141230T0300Z/ UPPER KUSKOKWIM VALLEY- INCLUDING...MCGRATH...NIKOLAI...TAKOTNA...FAREWELL LAKE 123 PM AKST SAT DEC 27 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM SUNDAY TO 6 PM AKST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM SUNDAY TO 6 PM AKST MONDAY. * LOCATION...NEAR THE ALASKA RANGE. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS LOCALLY GUSTING TO 70 MPH. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY. WINDS MAY DIMINISH SOME MONDAY NIGHT. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. PROPERTY DAMAGE MAY OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS HAZARDOUS HIGH WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PREVENT PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ AKZ217-281500- /O.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0046.141228T0900Z-141229T0300Z/ UPPER KOBUK AND NOATAK VALLEYS- INCLUDING...AMBLER...SHUNGNAK...KOBUK 123 PM AKST SAT DEC 27 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 PM AKST SUNDAY... * LOCATION...UPPER NOATAK VALLEY. * WINDS...GUSTS TO 45 MPH THROUGH PASSES. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. 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. && $$
012 WWAK72 PAFG 281441 NPWWCZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 541 AM AKST SUN DEC 28 2014 AKZ227-290000- /O.CON.PAFG.HW.W.0014.141228T1500Z-141230T0300Z/ UPPER KUSKOKWIM VALLEY- INCLUDING...MCGRATH...NIKOLAI...TAKOTNA...FAREWELL LAKE 541 AM AKST SUN DEC 28 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM AKST MONDAY... * LOCATION...NEAR THE ALASKA RANGE. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS LOCALLY GUSTING TO 70 MPH. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. PROPERTY DAMAGE MAY OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS HAZARDOUS HIGH WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PREVENT PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ AKZ217-290000- /O.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0046.000000T0000Z-141229T0300Z/ UPPER KOBUK AND NOATAK VALLEYS- INCLUDING...AMBLER...SHUNGNAK...KOBUK 541 AM AKST SUN DEC 28 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM AKST THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...UPPER NOATAK VALLEY. * WINDS...GUSTS TO 45 MPH THROUGH PASSES. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. 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. && $$
190 WWAK72 PAFG 282301 NPWWCZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 201 PM AKST SUN DEC 28 2014 AKZ217-290015- /O.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0046.000000T0000Z-141229T0300Z/ UPPER KOBUK AND NOATAK VALLEYS- INCLUDING...AMBLER...SHUNGNAK...KOBUK 201 PM AKST SUN DEC 28 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FAIRBANKS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$ AKZ227-291415- /O.EXT.PAFG.HW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-141231T0300Z/ UPPER KUSKOKWIM VALLEY- INCLUDING...MCGRATH...NIKOLAI...TAKOTNA...FAREWELL LAKE 201 PM AKST SUN DEC 28 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM AKST TUESDAY... * LOCATION...NEAR THE ALASKA RANGE. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS LOCALLY GUSTING TO 70 MPH. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT. PROPERTY DAMAGE MAY OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS HAZARDOUS HIGH WINDS ARE OCCURRING OR EXPECTED. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PREVENT PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
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 Dec 27, 3:42 AM AKST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 3:42 AM AKST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 342 AM AKST SAT DEC 27 2014 .DISCUSSION... MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT IN TERMS OF UPPER LEVEL SYNOPTIC FEATURES. SURFACE FEATURES LEAVE A LITTLE TO BE DESIRED IN TERMS OF WIND SPEEDS...DIRECTION AND PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS AND COVERAGE. COLD FRONT HAS MOVED ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF NORTHERN ALASKA AND ADDED ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOWFALL WITH ITS ADVANCE. IT HAS NOW REACHED THE ALCAN BORDER AND SKIES HAVE BEGUN TO CLEAR BEHIND THE FRONT WITH THE BUILDING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGH THE DAY FROM ABOUT TANANA EAST. WINDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH PASSES IN THE BROOKS RANGE AND THE ALASKA RANGE...STARTING IN THE BROOKS RANGE LATE SAT NIGHT AND ON SUN AND SUN NIGHT IN THE ALASKA RANGE PASSES. THE TANANA VALLEY JET WILL ESTABLISH ITSELF LATE SAT NIGHT AND CONTINUE ON SUN...ALBEIT THE EASTERN ALASKA RANGE PASSES LOOK TO BE THE RECIPIENT OF THE HIGHER WINDS AT THIS POINT. THE WEST COAST IS A MESS. THE WARM FRONT OF THE LARGE BERING LOW IS MOVING UP THE WEST COAST TODAY. THIS WILL LIKELY SPREAD BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND AND THE BERING STRAIT COAST TODAY BUT ONLY SKIRTING THE SEWARD PENINSULA WITH PRECIPITATION. MOST OF THE EASTERN SECTION OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA WILL JUST SEE THE INCREASED WINDS. THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ESTABLISHES ITSELF TODAY OVER MOST ALL OF NORTHERN ALASKA AND THEN MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD ON SUN. THE OCCLUDED PORTION OF THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE UP THE WEST COAST LATE TONIGHT AND SUN. THIS PORTION OF THE SYSTEM WILL BE WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE FOUND. EXPECT A MAJORITY OF THE PRECIPITATION IN THE LOWER YUKON VALLEY TO BE MOSTLY ALL SNOW ON SAT NIGHT AND SUN AND THE SNOWFALL FROM THIS PORTION OF THE EVENT COULD BE RATHER SIGNIFICANT. IT WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE LOWER KOYUKUK AND MIDDLE YUKON VALLEYS SUN AND SUN NIGHT WITH SOME DECENT SNOWFALL AS WELL. HIGH OVER THE ARCTIC COAST WILL SLIDE EASTWARD THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. THE GRADIENT BETWEEN THE HIGH AND THE BERING LOW WILL INCREASE TODAY ALONG THE WESTERN ARCTIC COAST AND TONIGHT ON THE EASTERN ARCTIC COAST. THE WINDS WILL BE FAIRLY STRONG BUT SINCE IT IS WARM ADVECTION IT WILL LIKELY NOT BE AS STRONG AS THEY COULD BE. ABOVE FREEZING LAYER AT 850 MB WILL PUSH ALL THE WAY TO BARTER ISLAND BY SUN AFTERNOON. COASTAL HAZARD POTENTIAL DAYS 3 AND 4...NONE && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WATCH FOR AKZ225. WINTER STORM WARNING FOR AKZ213. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR AKZ214. HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY WARNING FOR PKZ210. GALE WARNING FOR PKZ210-PKZ215-PKZ220-PKZ225-PKZ230. BRISK WIND ADVISORY FOR PKZ200-PKZ215-PKZ220-PKZ225-PKZ230- PKZ235. && CF DEC 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 4:04 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 17 hr | |
| Dec 27, 4:04 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 33 hr | |
| Dec 27, 4:04 AM AKST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | AFG | 10 hr | |
| Dec 27, 4:05 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 33 hr | |
| Dec 27, 4:05 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 47 hr | |
| Dec 27, 5:26 AM AKST | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | 9 hr | |
| Dec 27, 5:32 AM AKST | High Wind Watch | AFG | 8 hr | |
| Dec 27, 1:20 PM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 24 hr | |
| Dec 27, 1:20 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 38 hr | |
| Dec 27, 1:23 PM AKST | High Wind Warning | AFG | 3 days | |
| Dec 27, 1:29 PM AKST | High Wind Warning | AFG | 4 days | |
| Dec 27, 1:29 PM AKST | Wind Advisory | AFG | 3 days | |
| Dec 27, 1:57 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 38 hr | |
| Dec 27, 2:21 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | 22 hr | |
| Dec 27, 2:21 PM AKST | Winter Storm Warning | AFG | 3 days | |
| Dec 27, 2:30 PM AKST | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | 38 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.