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Wind Chill Advisory 57, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 14, 2021, 3:02 PM AKST. It took effect at Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 PM AKST. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2021, 3:02 PM AKST (00:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 PM AKST
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2021, 10:45 AM AKST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The text
As transmitted.
562 WWAK43 PAFG 150002 WSWAFG URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 302 PM AKST Tue Dec 14 2021 AKZ223-151615- /O.NEW.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.211215T2100Z-211216T2100Z/ Deltana and Tanana Flats- Including Salcha, Delta Junction, Fort Greely, Harding/Birch Lake, Dry Creek, Dot Lake, and Healy Lake 302 PM AKST Tue Dec 14 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO NOON AKST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 55 below expected. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Deltana and Tanana Flats. * WHEN...Noon Wednesday to noon Thursday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$ AKZ224-151615- /O.NEW.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.211215T2100Z-211216T2100Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 302 PM AKST Tue Dec 14 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO NOON AKST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 55 below expected. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Along the Yukon River near Eagle. * WHEN...Noon Wednesday to noon Thursday. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Southeast winds gusting to 25 mph down the Yukon River Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning will cause very cold wind chills. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$
4 follow-up statements
914 WWAK43 PAFG 151359 WSWAFG URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 459 AM AKST Wed Dec 15 2021 AKZ223-160200- /O.CON.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.211215T2100Z-211216T2100Z/ Deltana and Tanana Flats- Including Salcha, Delta Junction, Fort Greely, Harding/Birch Lake, Dry Creek, Dot Lake, and Healy Lake 459 AM AKST Wed Dec 15 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO NOON AKST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 55 below expected. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Deltana and Tanana Flats. * WHEN...Noon today to noon Thursday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$ AKZ224-160200- /O.CON.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.211215T2100Z-211216T2100Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 459 AM AKST Wed Dec 15 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO NOON AKST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 55 below expected. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Along the Yukon River near Eagle. * WHEN...Noon today to noon Thursday. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Southeast winds gusting to 25 mph down the Yukon River Valley Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning will cause very cold wind chills. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$
271 WWAK43 PAFG 160036 WSWAFG URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 336 PM AKST Wed Dec 15 2021 AKZ223-161945- /O.CON.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.000000T0000Z-211216T2100Z/ Deltana and Tanana Flats- Including Salcha, Delta Junction, Fort Greely, Harding/Birch Lake, Dry Creek, Dot Lake, and Healy Lake 336 PM AKST Wed Dec 15 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 55 below expected. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Deltana and Tanana Flats. * WHEN...Now to noon Thursday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$ AKZ224-161945- /O.CON.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.000000T0000Z-211216T2100Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 336 PM AKST Wed Dec 15 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 55 below expected. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Along the Yukon River near Eagle. * WHEN...Noon today to noon Thursday. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Southeast winds gusting to 25 mph down the Yukon River Valley tonight and Thursday will cause very cold wind chills. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$
612 WWAK43 PAFG 161136 WSWAFG URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 236 AM AKST Thu Dec 16 2021 AKZ223-162100- /O.CON.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.000000T0000Z-211216T2100Z/ Deltana and Tanana Flats- Including Salcha, Delta Junction, Fort Greely, Harding/Birch Lake, Dry Creek, Dot Lake, and Healy Lake 236 AM AKST Thu Dec 16 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKST TODAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 45 below occuring. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Deltana and Tanana Flats. * WHEN...Now to noon. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$ AKZ224-162100- /O.CON.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.000000T0000Z-211216T2100Z/ Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 236 AM AKST Thu Dec 16 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON AKST TODAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills to 50 below occuring. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 10 minutes to exposed skin. * WHERE...Along the Yukon River near Eagle. * WHEN...Now to noon. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Southeast winds gusting to 25 mph down the Yukon River Valley today will cause very cold wind chills. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and sustained wind speeds of 15 mph or more will create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. $$
029 WWAK43 PAFG 161945 WSWAFG URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 1045 AM AKST Thu Dec 16 2021 AKZ223-224-162045- /O.CAN.PAFG.WC.Y.0057.000000T0000Z-211216T2100Z/ Deltana and Tanana Flats- Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country- Including Salcha, Delta Junction, Fort Greely, Harding/Birch Lake, Dry Creek, Dot Lake, Healy Lake, Tok, Tanacross, Eagle, Tetlin, Northway, Alcan, Chicken, and Boundary 1045 AM AKST Thu Dec 16 2021 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 chill advisory went out at Dec 14, 5:50 AM AKST, 9 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 5:50 AM AKST, 9 hours 12 minutes before
Northern Alaska Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 550 AM AKST Tue Dec 14 2021 .SYNOPSIS... The cold airmass over mainland Alaska will hang in place into mid-week, but will shift east out of the state into Wednesday, prompting a significant warm-up Thursday and into the weekend. With this warm-up will bring clouds and increasing activity for the West Coast and Western Interior as more than one front is forecast to bring wind, snow, mixed precipitation, and possible coastal impacts. && .DISCUSSION... Aloft... Models in fairly decent agreement with the transitional synoptic pattern through the end of this week. Surface... Models in fairly decent agreement at the surface through about day 2. Differences arise Thursday into Friday, especially with a low tracking in the southern Bering during that same time frame. Central and Eastern Interior... Calm and cold for much of the Interior through Wednesday. Likely snow today south of Eagle and from Dot Lake east which will dissipate into the evening hours. Clouds will be increasing from the southwest to the northeast Wednesday into Thursday. Increasing chances for snow will follow that same trajectory beginning early Thursday. Winds will increase for the higher terrain and through the AK Range passes Thursday. Highs rebounding into the teens below to single digits below zero Thursday afternoon. West Coast and Western Interior... Cold wind chills to 45 below ending this morning for most areas along the coast. Cold wind chills will persist into Wednesday morning for coastal areas north of the Seward Peninsula. Otherwise, quiet and calm until a front reaches St. Lawrence Island by this evening with blizzard conditions expected. Southeasterly winds and snow will reach the Y-K Delta and Seward Peninsula the overnight and early morning hours on Wednesday. Snow and increasing winds will spread into the Western Interior early Thursday. As a result, temperatures increasing each day and may even go above freezing in the Y-K Delta region by the end of this week. North Slope and Brooks Range... Quiet and calm conditions today with areas of low stratus and fog. As front moves inland, winds along the coast will increase out of the east beginning Wednesday for the Chukchi Sea Coast, and spread along the rest of the coast into Thursday. Chance of snow west of Wainright Thursday. Temperatures gradually increasing through the end of the week. Coastal Hazard Potential Days 3 and 4... Strong southwest winds developing this weekend over the Bering Sea will bring the potential for coastal flooding along the West Coast Sunday into Monday time frame. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Wind Chill Watch for AKZ209. Wind Chill Advisory for AKZ207-AKZ208-AKZ212-AKZ213-AKZ215. Wind Chill Warning for AKZ201. Blizzard Warning for AKZ213. Winter Storm Watch for AKZ211-AKZ212-AKZ214. Gale Warning for PKZ200. Storm Warning for PKZ210. Brisk Wind Advisory for PKZ220-PKZ225-PKZ230. && KS DEC 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 3:09 PM AKST | Dense Fog Advisory | AFG | 21 hr | |
| Dec 14, 3:23 PM AKST | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | 50 hr | |
| Dec 14, 3:52 PM AKST | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | 3 days | |
| Dec 14, 4:00 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 47 hr | |
| Dec 15, 3:42 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 13 hr | |
| Dec 15, 3:42 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 35 hr | |
| Dec 15, 3:42 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 24 hr | |
| Dec 15, 1:05 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | 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.