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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 5, 2016, 11:32 AM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2016, 11:32 AM EST (16:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2016, 6:42 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 16:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 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
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 104 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
418 WWUS71 KBOX 051632 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1132 AM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 MAZ022>024-060000- /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.160205T1632Z-160206T0000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 1132 AM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...CAPE COD...NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD. * WINDS...NORTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...AS WELL AS SOME RAIN MIXING WITH SNOW IN SOME AREAS COULD LEAD TO DOWNED LIMBS AND SMALL TREES. SOME POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. 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. && $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSBOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
1 follow-up statement
349 WWUS71 KBOX 052342 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 642 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 MAZ022>024-060045- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-160206T0000Z/ BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH...PROVINCETOWN... VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET 642 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS. ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS EVENING...THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH AND ARE ALREADY BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. HOWEVER...WET SNOW THAT FELL TODAY AND GUSTY WINDS MAY STILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES THIS EVENING. $$ FRANK 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.