Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Apr 21, 2007, 3:52 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 21, 2007, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2007, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 21, 2007, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2007, 6:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 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 00:00Z, 8.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 210852 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 352 AM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 .AN INTENSE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES...A SURFACE LOW OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS WILL DEEPEN CAUSING SOUTHERLY WINDS TO INCREASE TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. KSZ008-009-020-021-034-211700- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0009.070421T1800Z-070422T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER 352 AM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE SOUTHERLY WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE BELOW 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS BELOW 40 MPH EARLY THIS EVENING. DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...OR OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KTOP 211623 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1123 AM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 .AN INTENSE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES...A SURFACE LOW OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS WILL DEEPEN CAUSING SOUTHERLY WINDS TO INCREASE TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. KSZ008-009-020-021-034-220000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0009.070421T1800Z-070422T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER 1123 AM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE SOUTHERLY WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE BELOW 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS BELOW 40 MPH EARLY THIS EVENING. DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...OR OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS... ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. $$
000 WWUS73 KTOP 212321 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 621 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 ...WINDS HAVE DECREASED AND THE WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELED... .AS EVENING APPROACHED...THE WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. THUS...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED. KSZ008-009-020-021-034-220030- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-070422T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER 621 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. HOWEVER THE WINDS SHOULD STAY BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$
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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.