Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 11, 2007, 11:56 AM CST for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2007, 11:56 AM CST (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2007, 4:03 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1030 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 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 111756 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1156 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007 KSZ040-054>056-058-059-120000- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.070111T1800Z-070112T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 1156 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 30 MPH...WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 40 MPH...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AREAS AFFECTED WILL BE MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KTOP 112203 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 403 PM CST THU JAN 11 2007 KSZ040-054>056-058-059-112315- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-070112T0000Z/ DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 403 PM CST THU JAN 11 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...HOWEVER WIND SPEEDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 4:45 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 53 hr |
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.