Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 12, 2006, 3:28 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2006, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2006, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 622 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 826 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KTOP 122128 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 328 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS KANSAS AND PROVIDE STRONG WINDS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. KSZ008-009-020>022-034>038-054-130100- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.060312T2128Z-060313T0100Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY- MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-LYON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN... ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...EMPORIA 328 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS ABOVE 40 MPH WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...GENERALLY SOUTH AND WEST OF AN EMPORIA...TO MANHATTAN...TO MARYSVILLE LINE. THE WINDS SHOULD DIMINISH BELOW WIND CRITERIA LEVELS AFTER SUNSET. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KTOP 130115 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 715 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 KSZ008-009-020>022-034>038-054-130215- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060313T0100Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY- MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-LYON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN... ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...EMPORIA 715 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS WERE SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AND DIMINISHING IN SPEEDS AND ARE NOW EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVEL. THUS THE ADVISORY WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER WIND GUSTS TO 25 TO 35 MPH WILL BE STILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING HOURS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 6:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 6:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 24 min |
| Mar 12, 6:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 22 min |
| Mar 12, 7:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 7:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 7:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 7:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 7:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 7:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 8:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 42 min |
| Mar 12, 8:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 32 min |
| Mar 12, 8:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 38 min |
| Mar 12, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 67 min |
| Mar 12, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 8:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 52 min |
| Mar 12, 9:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 13 min |
| Mar 12, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 12:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 12:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 52 min |
| Mar 12, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 51 min |
| Mar 12, 1:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 17 min |
| Mar 12, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 23 min |
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.