Alert archive / Alaska / Wind Advisories in 2018
Wind Advisory 50, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Sep 23, 2018, 3:40 AM AKDT. It took effect at Sep 24, 2018, 4:00 AM AKDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2018, 3:40 AM AKDT (11:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2018, 4:00 AM AKDT
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2018, 3:56 AM AKDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The text
As transmitted.
339 WWAK73 PAFG 231140 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 340 AM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 AKZ226-240200- /O.NEW.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Eastern Alaska Range- Including Mentasta Lake, Black Rapids, Donnelly Dome, Trims DOT Camp, Eagle Trail, and Mineral Lake 340 AM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM MONDAY TO 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has issued a Wind Advisory, which is in effect from 4 AM Monday to 7 AM AKDT Tuesday. * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase after midnight tonight and will peak Monday morning and afternoon. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ224-240200- /O.NEW.PAFG.HW.A.0006.180924T2000Z-180925T1500Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 340 AM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 ...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has issued a High Wind Watch, which is in effect from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning. * LOCATION...West of Tok along the Alaska Highway. * WINDS...Southwest gusting up to 50 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase Monday afternoon and will peak Monday evening. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A High Wind Watch means hazardous high winds are expected. Preparations should be made to prevent property damage. && $$
4 follow-up statements
393 WWAK73 PAFG 232007 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 1207 PM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 AKZ224-241400- /O.UPG.PAFG.HW.A.0006.180924T2000Z-180925T1500Z/ /O.EXA.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 1207 PM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM MONDAY TO 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has issued a Wind Advisory, which is in effect from 4 AM Monday to 7 AM AKDT Tuesday. The High Wind Watch is no longer in effect. * LOCATION...West of Tok along the Alaska Highway. * WINDS...Southwest gusting up to 45 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase during the day on Monday and will peak Monday evening. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ225-241400- /O.EXA.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Denali- Including Healy, Denali National Park, Carlo Creek, and Kantishna 1207 PM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM MONDAY TO 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has issued a Wind Advisory, which is in effect from 4 AM Monday to 7 AM AKDT Tuesday. * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase after midnight tonight and will peak Monday afternoon and evening. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ226-241400- /O.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Eastern Alaska Range- Including Mentasta Lake, Black Rapids, Donnelly Dome, Trims DOT Camp, Eagle Trail, and Mineral Lake 1207 PM AKDT Sun Sep 23 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM MONDAY TO 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase after midnight tonight and will peak Monday afternoon and evening. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$
882 WWAK73 PAFG 241132 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 332 AM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 AKZ224-250200- /O.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 332 AM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...West of Tok along the Alaska Highway. * WINDS...Southwest gusting up to 45 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase today and will peak this evening. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ225-250200- /O.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Denali- Including Healy, Denali National Park, Carlo Creek, and Kantishna 332 AM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase this morning and peak this afternoon. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ226-250200- /O.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.180924T1200Z-180925T1500Z/ Eastern Alaska Range- Including Mentasta Lake, Black Rapids, Donnelly Dome, Trims DOT Camp, Eagle Trail, and Mineral Lake 332 AM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will increase this morning and will peak this afternoon. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$
905 WWAK73 PAFG 242207 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 207 PM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 AKZ224-251500- /O.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-180925T2000Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 207 PM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...West of Tok along the Alaska Highway and higher terrain west of the Taylor Highway. * WINDS...Southwest gusting up to 45 mph. * TIMING...Winds will peak along the Alaska Highway this evening and then decrease Tuesday morning. As winds decrease along the highway Tuesday morning, they will increase in upland areas west of the Taylor Highway. Winds will decrease around midday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ226-251500- /O.EXT.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-180925T1800Z/ Eastern Alaska Range- Including Mentasta Lake, Black Rapids, Donnelly Dome, Trims DOT Camp, Eagle Trail, and Mineral Lake 207 PM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will peak this afternoon. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$ AKZ225-251500- /O.CON.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-180925T1500Z/ Denali- Including Healy, Denali National Park, Carlo Creek, and Kantishna 207 PM AKDT Mon Sep 24 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM AKDT TUESDAY... * LOCATION...Alaska Range Passes. * WINDS...South winds gusting up to 60 mph. * TIMING...Winds will peak this afternoon. Winds will decrease Tuesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that strong winds are occurring or expected. Travel may be difficult. Secure loose objects which may be blown about by the wind. && $$
550 WWAK73 PAFG 251156 NPWAFG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 356 AM AKDT Tue Sep 25 2018 AKZ224-251300- /O.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-180925T2000Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 356 AM AKDT Tue Sep 25 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has cancelled the Wind Advisory. $$ AKZ225-251300- /O.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-180925T1500Z/ Denali- Including Healy, Denali National Park, Carlo Creek, and Kantishna 356 AM AKDT Tue Sep 25 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has cancelled the Wind Advisory. $$ AKZ226-251300- /O.CAN.PAFG.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-180925T1800Z/ Eastern Alaska Range- Including Mentasta Lake, Black Rapids, Donnelly Dome, Trims DOT Camp, Eagle Trail, and Mineral Lake 356 AM AKDT Tue Sep 25 2018 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has cancelled the Wind Advisory. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Sep 22, 1:11 PM AKDT, 14 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 1:11 PM AKDT, 14 hours 29 minutes before
Northern Alaska Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 111 PM AKDT Sat Sep 22 2018 .DISCUSSION... An unsettled and wet pattern will continue across Northern Alaska (especially south of the Brooks Range) through this weekend and into next week. Accumulating snow in the Eastern Brooks Range and North Slope from the Dalton Highway east is possible this afternoon through Sunday afternoon. Drier conditions for the west coast and interior on Thursday and Friday as ridging builds over the state. Aloft...At 500 mb, a 532 dam low continues to slowly drift across the eastern Brooks range this afternoon into Sunday. A 531 dam low 100 miles north of Nunivak Island will move over Scammon Bay by midnight tonight, then veer north and weaken over Norton Sound through Monday morning. Another upper level low will track northeast and push across Southcentral Alaska and the Alaska Range through late Monday afternoon and then over the Eastern Interior through Monday night. From Tuesday morning onward multiple weak shortwaves will move over Interior Alaska, finally pushed east by a upper level trough by the middle of next week. Surface...A 984 mb low just north of Nunivak Island will move east today and over Scammon Bay by this evening. This low will drift north into Norton Sound and weaken through early Monday morning as a 994 mb low. The low in Norton sound will wobble back to the south again Tuesday morning. Weak lows will develop over the western and eastern interiors Monday afternoon Leeside troughing north of the Alaska Range will develop ahead of this low by Monday morning and persist into Monday evening. A 1014 mb ridge of high pressure will persist over the Arctic Coast through Sunday night. West Coast and Western Interior...An unsettled and showery pattern will persist over the area through the weekend and into next week as the low currently northwest of Nunivak Island slowly drifts north into Norton Sound. Easterly flow will become northeasterly over Saint Lawrence Island and the northern Bering Sea this morning with sustained winds between 20 and 30 mph persisting into Sunday morning before dissipating. As the low drifts into Norton Sound Sunday night into Monday, north to northeast winds will increase to 20 to 30 mph. Showers will pick back up again Monday afternoon into Tuesday. Showers will begin to taper off Wednesday into Thursday as ridging builds in over the Bering. Central and Eastern Interior...Winds have dropped below advisory level this afternoon but will pick back up again Monday morning and persisting into early Tuesday as another shortwave moves over the range. Numerous rain showers will continue across the area through Sunday afternoon. Areas of fog are also possible across the Middle Tanana Valley Sunday morning. A brief break in the precipitation is expected Sunday night into Monday morning before another round of precipitation lifts north over the Interior. Models are hinting that a ridge of high pressure will build over the area for Thursday and Friday, bringing an extended period of dry conditions. North Slope and Brooks Range...Uppr level low will enhance the snowfall east of the Dalton Highway this afternoon into Sunday. Snow will develop over the Eastern Brooks Range and over the North Slope east of the Dalton Highway by this afternoon and will continue through Sunday afternoon before tapering off to snow showers. 24 hour snowfall accumulations 2 to 5 inches, heaviest east of the Dalton Highway. Areas of fog with visibility below one mile and low ceilings in stratus will persist along the coast as high pressure sits off the coast through Sunday. Coastal Hazard Potential Days 3 and 4...The models are hinting at an active pattern along the west coast for late next week into next weekend. It is too far out to single out any specific impacts; however we will have to continue to watch the situation. HYDROLOGY...Rainfall across the west coast and the Interior will cause some rises in rivers; however, no issues are expected at the moment. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Small Craft Advisory for PKZ210. && JK SEP 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 3:40 AM AKDT | High Wind Watch | AFG | 8 hr | |
| Sep 23, 3:28 PM AKDT | Small Craft Advisory | AFG | 37 hr |
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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.