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Wind Advisory 26, NWS Fairbanks, AK

August 5, 2025Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Aug 5, 2025, 2:14 PM AKDT for Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska. It took effect at Aug 7, 2025, 7:00 AM AKDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 2025, 2:14 PM AKDT (22:14 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 7, 2025, 7:00 AM AKDT
Expired
Aug 7, 2025, 7:00 PM AKDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Fairbanks, AK

County Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

The radar

The Fairbanks Faa radar (PAPD), 249 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Anchorage Iap/Pt. Campbe, (PANC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 450 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Anchorage Iap/Pt. Campbe, at 12:00Z on 2025-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Anchorage Iap/Pt. Campbe, at 12:00Z on 2025-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.