Alert archive / Massachusetts / Wind Advisories in 2020
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind advisory at Feb 7, 2020, 9:36 PM EST for Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2020, 9:36 PM EST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2020, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
281 WWUS71 KBOX 080236 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 936 PM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 MAZ024-080600- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-200208T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.WI.Y.0005.200208T0236Z-200208T0600Z/ Nantucket MA- Including the city of Nantucket 936 PM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST SATURDAY... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... * WHAT...West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. * WHERE...Nantucket MA County. * WHEN...Until 1 AM EST Saturday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects. && $$ MAZ022-023-RIZ008-080345- /O.CAN.KBOX.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-200208T0300Z/ Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Block Island RI- Including the cities of Chatham, Falmouth, Provincetown, Vineyard Haven, and New Shoreham 936 PM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... Gusty west winds up to 35 mph will continue to diminish overnight. $$ CTZ002>004-MAZ005>007-009-011>021-RIZ001>007-080345- /O.CAN.KBOX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-200208T0300Z/ Hartford CT-Tolland CT-Windham CT-Central Middlesex MA- Western Essex MA-Eastern Essex MA-Western Hampden MA- Eastern Hampden MA-Southern Worcester MA-Western Norfolk MA- Southeast Middlesex MA-Suffolk MA-Eastern Norfolk MA- Northern Bristol MA-Western Plymouth MA-Eastern Plymouth MA- Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-Northwest Providence RI- Southeast Providence RI-Western Kent RI-Eastern Kent RI- Bristol RI-Washington RI-Newport RI- Including the cities of Hartford, Windsor Locks, Union, Vernon, Putnam, Willimantic, Framingham, Lowell, Lawrence, Gloucester, Blandford, Springfield, Milford, Worcester, Foxborough, Norwood, Cambridge, Boston, Quincy, Taunton, Brockton, Plymouth, Fall River, New Bedford, Mattapoisett, Foster, Smithfield, Providence, Coventry, West Greenwich, East Greenwich, Warwick, West Warwick, Bristol, Narragansett, Westerly, and Newport 936 PM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... Gusty west winds up to 35 mph will continue to diminish overnight. $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/box
1 follow-up statement
850 WWUS71 KBOX 080558 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 1258 AM EST Sat Feb 8 2020 MAZ024-080700- /O.EXP.KBOX.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-200208T0600Z/ Nantucket MA- Including the city of Nantucket 1258 AM EST Sat Feb 8 2020 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 1 AM EST EARLY THIS MORNING... West wind gusts will continue to diminish less than 35 mph overnight. $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/box
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 9:38 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.