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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

October 3, 2015Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Washington County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Oct 3, 2015, 3:19 PM EDT for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 3, 2015, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired
Oct 3, 2015, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 63 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2015-10-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2015-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 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.

085 
WWUS71 KBOX 031919
NPWBOX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
319 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

MAZ024-040300-
/O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-151003T1900Z/
/O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0012.151003T1919Z-151004T0300Z/
NANTUCKET MA-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NANTUCKET
319 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATION...NANTUCKET

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

* TIMING...THROUGH 11 PM.

* IMPACTS...SMALL TREES AND LIMBS MAY BE DOWNED...CAUSING SOME 
  POWER OUTAGES. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE CAN ALSO MAKE DRIVING 
  DIFFICULT.

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.

&&

$$

MAZ022-023-RIZ008-040300-
/O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-151003T1900Z/
/O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0012.151003T1919Z-151004T0300Z/
BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-BLOCK ISLAND RI-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN...
VINEYARD HAVEN...BLOCK ISLAND
319 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATION...CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND BLOCK ISLAND

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

* TIMING...THROUGH 11 PM.

* IMPACTS...SMALL TREES AND LIMBS MAY BE DOWNED...CAUSING SOME 
  POWER OUTAGES. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE CAN ALSO MAKE DRIVING 
  DIFFICULT.

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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1 follow-up statement
029 
WWUS71 KBOX 040305
NPWBOX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1105 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

MAZ022>024-RIZ008-040415-
/O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-151004T0300Z/
BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-BLOCK ISLAND RI-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN...
VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET...BLOCK ISLAND
1105 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015

...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...

HOWEVER GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CAPE AND
ISLANDS TONIGHT. 

$$


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 3, 3:46 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBOX5 days

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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.