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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this high wind watch at Feb 18, 2024, 3:49 AM AKST for Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska. It took effect at Feb 19, 2024, 3:00 PM AKST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2024, 3:49 AM AKST (12:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2024, 3:00 PM AKST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2024, 11:35 AM AKST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
The radar
The Fairbanks Faa radar (PAPD), 249 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 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
Fairbanks, (PFAI), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 17, 1:33 PM AKST, 14 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 1:33 PM AKST, 14 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 3:52 AM AKST | Winter Storm Warning | AFG | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 69 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:57 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 58 hr | |
| Feb 18, 11:31 AM AKST | Winter Weather Advisory | AFG | North Slope | 29 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:35 AM AKST | High Wind Warning | AFG | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 47 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:35 AM AKST | Wind Advisory | AFG | Denali, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 47 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:14 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 64 hr | |
| Feb 18, 2:20 PM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 48 hr | |
| Feb 18, 2:20 PM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 48 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Alaska, 2024Every high wind watch in 2024
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.