Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 12, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
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.
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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.
- 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
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. && $$ MAZ022-023-RIZ008-040300- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-151003T1900Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0012.151003T1919Z-151004T0300Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...BLOCK ISLAND 319 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...CAPE COD...MARTHAS VINEYARD AND BLOCK ISLAND * WINDS...NORTHEAST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 11 PM. * IMPACTS...SMALL TREES AND LIMBS MAY BE DOWNED...CAUSING SOME POWER OUTAGES. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE CAN ALSO MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSBOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
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. $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSBOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 3:46 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 5 days |
Nearby
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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.