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Wind Advisory 30, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this wind advisory at Aug 27, 2025, 12:31 PM AKDT for Denali Borough, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska. It took effect at Aug 27, 2025, 10:00 PM AKDT. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2025, 12:31 PM AKDT (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 27, 2025, 10:00 PM AKDT
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2025, 4:00 AM AKDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
Counties Denali Borough, AK, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK
The radar
The Fairbanks Faa radar (PAPD), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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
Anchorage Iap/Pt. Campbe, (PANC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind 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 advisory went out at Aug 27, 6:55 AM AKDT, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 6:55 AM AKDT, 5 hours 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 10:01 PM AKDT | Winter Storm Watch | AFG | North Slope | 13 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:45 AM AKDT | Small Craft Advisory | AFG | 60 hr | |
| Aug 27, 3:46 AM AKDT | Small Craft Advisory | AFG | 7 days | |
| Aug 27, 2:24 PM AKDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AFG | Northwest Arctic | 10 days |
| Aug 27, 2:48 PM AKDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AFG | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 42 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:48 PM AKDT | Small Craft Advisory | AFG | 48 hr |
Nearby
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.