Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Jun 15, 2006, 3:50 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 15, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2006, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 15, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2006, 8:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 150850 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 350 AM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 .A STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE PLAINS STATES TODAY. THIS WILL CREATE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT THIS AFTERNOON AND CAUSE STRONG SOUTH WINDS TO DEVELOP. KSZ008-009-020-034-151700- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0013.060615T1700Z-060616T0300Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 350 AM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS OF AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE WIND SPEEDS WILL DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KTOP 151839 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 139 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 .A STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO APPROACH THE PLAINS STATES TODAY. STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM THROUGH THE DAY. KSZ008-009-020-034-160300- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-060616T0300Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 139 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS OF AROUND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE WIND SPEEDS WILL DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING. TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. HIGH WINDS CAN TOPPLE TREES...BLOW WEAKENED ROOFS OFF HOUSES...AND DOWN POWER LINES. $$
000 WWUS73 KTOP 160122 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 822 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 KSZ008-009-020-034-160230- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-060616T0300Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 822 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED TO 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. $$
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.