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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Wichita, KS

January 7, 20075 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 7, 2007, 11:57 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 2007, 11:57 AM CST (17:57 UTC)
Expired
Jan 7, 2007, 3:16 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-01-07Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -65 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KICT 071757
NPWICT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1157 AM CST SUN JAN 7 2007

...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON...

KSZ032-033-047-048-050-072200-
/O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0001.070107T1757Z-070107T2200Z/
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND...
ELLSWORTH...LYONS
1157 AM CST SUN JAN 7 2007

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. 

STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH
WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON.

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.

$$

KED
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS73 KICT 072116
NPWICT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
316 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007


KSZ032-033-047-048-050-072230-
/O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-070107T2200Z/
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND...
ELLSWORTH...LYONS
316 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA OVER THE LAST
COUPLE OF HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$

LAWSON

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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.