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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Mar 14, 2016, 3:08 PM EDT for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Mar 14, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2016, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 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 19:08 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, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
352 WWUS71 KBOX 141908 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 308 PM EDT MON MAR 14 2016 MAZ022>024-150315- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0013.160315T0300Z-160315T1500Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 308 PM EDT MON MAR 14 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM EDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM EDT TUESDAY. * LOCATIONS...INCLUDE CAPE COD...NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD. * WINDS...EAST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MIDDAY. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND WIRES...WHICH COULD RESULT IN A FEW POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR TRUCKS AND OTHER HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$ SIPPRELL FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSBOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
2 follow-up statements
298 WWUS71 KBOX 150754 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 354 AM EDT TUE MAR 15 2016 MAZ022>024-151500- /O.CON.KBOX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-160315T1500Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 354 AM EDT TUE MAR 15 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...INCLUDE CAPE COD...NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD. * WINDS...EAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH MIDDAY. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND WIRES...WHICH COULD RESULT IN A FEW POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR TRUCKS AND OTHER HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG ARE CAPABLE OF DOWNING SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...POSSIBLY CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. DRIVING CAN ALSO BE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. && $$ 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
909 WWUS71 KBOX 151510 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1110 AM EDT TUE MAR 15 2016 MAZ022>024-151615- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-160315T1500Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1110 AM EDT TUE MAR 15 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW WIND ADVISORY THRESHOLDS. GUSTS OF AROUND 30 MPH ARE ANTICIPATED FOR THE ADVISED AREA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS GRADUALLY TAPERING OFF. $$ 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
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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.