Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 16, 2006, 3:38 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 16, 2006, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2006, 3:38 AM CST (09:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2006, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2006, 4:11 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 160938 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 338 AM CST MON JAN 16 2006 ...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-091-161745- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0002.060116T1400Z-060117T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN-HARPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...LYONS...HUTCHINSON...KINGMAN...ANTHONY...HARPER 338 AM CST MON JAN 16 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL SWEEP SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS MORNING...AND PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. GUSTS MAY REACH 40 OR 45 MPH. 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. $$ ADK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KICT 161643 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1043 AM CST MON JAN 16 2006 ...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-091-170000- /O.CON.KICT.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060117T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN-HARPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...LYONS...HUTCHINSON...KINGMAN...ANTHONY...HARPER 1043 AM CST MON JAN 16 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL SWEEP SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS BY THIS AFTERNOON...AND PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. GUSTS MAY REACH 40 TO 45 MPH. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ KETCHAM
000 WWUS73 KICT 162211 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 411 PM CST MON JAN 16 2006 ...WINDS CONTINUE TO DECREASE... .WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AS COLD AIR FILTERS IN. THE WIND ADVISORY IS BEING CANCELLED. KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-091-162315- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060117T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN-HARPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...LYONS...HUTCHINSON...KINGMAN...ANTHONY...HARPER 411 PM CST MON JAN 16 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS HAVE DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE. $$ CDB
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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.