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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

January 3, 2014Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Jan 3, 2014, 10:35 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: Jan 3, 2014, 10:35 AM EST (15:35 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2014, 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 15:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 137 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 589 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

973 
WWUS71 KBOX 031535
NPWBOX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1035 AM EST FRI JAN 3 2014

MAZ022>024-032100-
/O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0001.140103T1535Z-140103T2100Z/
BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN...
VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET
1035 AM EST FRI JAN 3 2014

...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.

* LOCATION...CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS

* WINDS...NORTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH.

* TIMING...THROUGH MID AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE BLOWING SNOW
  AND REDUCED VISIBILITY...AND MAY DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND
  BRANCHES. 

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.

&&

$$


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 3:33 AM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	BOX		6 hr
Jan 3, 11:07 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		47 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.