Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Dec 15, 2005, 12:09 PM CST for 15 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2005, 12:09 PM CST (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2005, 3:16 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood 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
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 151809 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1209 PM CST THU DEC 15 2005 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>070-082-083-152300- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0008.051215T1809Z-051215T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- CHASE-RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA... EUREKA...KINGMAN...WICHITA 1209 PM CST THU DEC 15 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. 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. $$ KED
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KICT 152116 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 316 PM CST THU DEC 15 2005 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>070-082-083-152230- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-051215T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- CHASE-RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA... EUREKA...KINGMAN...WICHITA 316 PM CST THU DEC 15 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$ KED
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.