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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this winter storm warning at Jan 29, 2024, 5:56 AM AKST for North Slope Borough, Alaska. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2024, 5:56 AM AKST (14:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2024, 2:11 PM AKST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
County North Slope Borough, AK
The nearest sounding before it
Point Barrow, (PBRW), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 28, 2:08 PM AKST, 15 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 2:08 PM AKST, 15 hours 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 12:30 AM AKST | Wind Chill Warning | AFG | North Slope | 26 hr |
| Jan 29, 6:29 AM AKST | Brisk Wind Advisory | AFG | 32 hr | |
| Jan 29, 6:29 AM AKST | Gale Warning | AFG | 22 hr | |
| Jan 29, 2:11 PM AKST | Blizzard Warning | AFG | North Slope | 12 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.