Alert archive / Connecticut / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 4, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this wind advisory at Mar 18, 2015, 11:51 AM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2015, 11:51 AM EDT (15:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2015, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 124 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
432 WWUS71 KOKX 181551 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1151 AM EDT WED MAR 18 2015 CTZ006>008-010>012-NYZ079-081-190000- /O.NEW.KOKX.WI.Y.0004.150318T1551Z-150319T0000Z/ NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON- SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 1151 AM EDT WED MAR 18 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...MUCH OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND EASTERN LONG ISLAND. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN SOME TREE BRANCHES OR WIRES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED FOR WIND GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
274 WWUS71 KOKX 181917 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 317 PM EDT WED MAR 18 2015 CTZ006>008-010>012-NYZ079-081-190000- /O.CON.KOKX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150319T0000Z/ NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON- SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 317 PM EDT WED MAR 18 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...MUCH OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND EASTERN LONG ISLAND. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN SOME TREE BRANCHES OR WIRES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED FOR WIND GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
888 WWUS71 KOKX 182305 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 705 PM EDT WED MAR 18 2015 CTZ006>008-010>012-NYZ079-081-190015- /O.CAN.KOKX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150319T0000Z/ NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON- SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 705 PM EDT WED MAR 18 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE BREEZY EARLY TONIGHT...WIND GUSTS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW 45 MPH. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:44 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 18 hr |
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.