Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 3, 2007, 3:48 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2007, 3:48 AM CST (09:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2007, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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 030948 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 348 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2007 KSZ008-009-020-021-034>037-031700- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0007.070303T0948Z-070303T1700Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE... JUNCTION CITY 348 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CST THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CST THIS MORNING. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED INTO THE LATE MORNING HOURS BEFORE THE WINDS BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH...OR WIND GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KTOP 031647 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1047 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2007 KSZ008-009-020-021-034>037-031800- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-070303T1700Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE... JUNCTION CITY 1047 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 AM CST THIS MORNING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 AM CST THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA...THEY WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE BY MID AFTERNOON. WITH WIND SPEEDS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO REACH OR EXCEED WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 11 AM THIS MORNING. $$
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.