Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2006

Wind Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS

March 12, 200611 counties in Kansas

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.

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2006-03-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2006-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 622 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 6:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris37 min
Mar 12, 6:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon34 min
Mar 12, 6:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay24 min
Mar 12, 6:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson22 min
Mar 12, 7:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Riley34 min
Mar 12, 7:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington30 min
Mar 12, 7:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee48 min
Mar 12, 7:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris, Wabaunsee39 min
Mar 12, 7:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic34 min
Mar 12, 7:34 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris41 min
Mar 12, 7:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson35 min
Mar 12, 8:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Riley, Wabaunsee42 min
Mar 12, 8:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Shawnee32 min
Mar 12, 8:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary, Morris38 min
Mar 12, 8:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley45 min
Mar 12, 8:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie67 min
Mar 12, 8:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee41 min
Mar 12, 8:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha29 min
Mar 12, 9:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Jefferson, Shawnee52 min
Mar 12, 9:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Jackson50 min
Mar 12, 10:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson13 min
Mar 12, 12:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Franklin, Osage45 min
Mar 12, 12:27 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPCoffey, Franklin, Osage48 min
Mar 12, 12:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey52 min
Mar 12, 1:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas51 min
Mar 12, 1:19 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPAnderson35 min
Mar 12, 1:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson17 min
Mar 12, 5:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin23 min

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Kansas, 2006Every wind advisory in 2006

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.