Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Nov 12, 2005, 12:45 PM CST for 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2005, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2005, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 KTOP 121845 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1245 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...STORM SYSTEM BRINGING STRONG WINDS... .A STORM SYSTEM OVER NEBRASKA WILL BRING STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS TO PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTS OVER 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON. KSZ010>012-022>024-026-035>040-054>056-058-059-130000- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0003.051112T1845Z-051113T0000Z/ MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-RILEY-POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON- DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE- FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...MANHATTAN... ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 1245 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. BY EARLY EVENING AS THE WINDS BECOME MORE WESTERLY...THE SPEEDS SHOULD DIMINISH RAPIDLY. TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. HIGH WINDS CAN TOPPLE TREES...BLOW WEAKENED ROOFS OFF HOUSES...AND DOWN POWER LINES. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KTOP 122354 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 554 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 KSZ010>012-022>024-026-035>040-054>056-058-059-130100- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-051113T0000Z/ MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-RILEY-POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON- DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE- FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...MANHATTAN... ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 554 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING THUS THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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.