Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 29, 2005, 11:58 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 29, 2005, 11:58 AM CDT (16:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2005, 5:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KICT 291658 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1158 AM CDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON... .A TIGHT SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL CREATE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ032-033-047>053-067>069-082-083-091>093-292300- /X.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0004.051029T1658Z-051029T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- CHASE-RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER-COWLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA... KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...WELLINGTON...WINFIELD... ARKANSAS CITY 1158 AM CDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH AND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FOR AREAS WEST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ KETCHAM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KICT 292239 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 539 PM CDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELED FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... KSZ032-033-047>053-067>069-082-083-091>093-292345- /X.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-051029T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- CHASE-RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER-COWLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA... KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...WELLINGTON...WINFIELD... ARKANSAS CITY 539 PM CDT SAT OCT 29 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$ CDB
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.