Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this wind advisory at Mar 1, 2008, 12:35 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas; Clay County, Jackson County, Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2008, 12:35 PM CST (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2008, 3:56 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Atchison County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 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 KEAX 011836 NPWEAX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1235 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 .A DEEPENING TROUGH MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS HAS RESULTED IN RAPID PRESSURE FALLS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THIS IN TURN HAS TIGHTENED THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI BORDER FARTHER SOUTH. COUPLED WITH A STRONG 50+ KNOT 850MB JET...AND ABUNDANT SUNSHINE FOR BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING...WE ARE BEGINNING TO SEE ADVISORY LEVEL WINDS MOVE INTO THE GREATER KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THE SURFACE WIND SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE A LITTLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS SURFACE HEATING FADES AWAY AND THE 850MB WIND DECREASES A LITTLE. KSZ025-103>105-MOZ028-029-037-012200- /O.NEW.KEAX.WI.Y.0004.080301T1835Z-080301T2200Z/ ATCHISON KS-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-PLATTE-CLAY-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATCHISON...LEAVENWORTH... KANSAS CITY KS...OVERLAND PARK...OLATHE...PARKVILLE... PLATTE CITY...WESTON...LIBERTY...EXCELSIOR SPRINGS... KANSAS CITY...INDEPENDENCE 1235 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM ATCHISON SOUTH THROUGH OLATHE AND LEES SUMMIT THROUGH 4 PM. THIS WILL INCLUDES AREAS OF LEAVENWORTH AND KANSAS CITY. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 40 MPH...OR GUSTS RANGING FROM 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. $$ CUTTER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KEAX 011855 CCA NPWEAX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1235 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 .A DEEPENING TROUGH MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS HAS RESULTED IN RAPID PRESSURE FALLS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THIS IN TURN HAS TIGHTENED THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI BORDER FARTHER TO THE SOUTH. COUPLED WITH A STRONG 50+ KNOT 850MB JET...AND ABUNDANT SUNSHINE FOR BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING...WE ARE BEGINNING TO SEE ADVISORY LEVEL WINDS MOVE INTO THE GREATER KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THE SURFACE WIND SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE A LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS SURFACE HEATING FADES AWAY AND THE 850MB WIND DECREASES A LITTLE. KSZ025-103>105-MOZ028-029-037-012200- /O.NEW.KEAX.WI.Y.0004.080301T1835Z-080301T2200Z/ ATCHISON KS-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-PLATTE-CLAY-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATCHISON...LEAVENWORTH... KANSAS CITY KS...OVERLAND PARK...OLATHE...PARKVILLE... PLATTE CITY...WESTON...LIBERTY...EXCELSIOR SPRINGS... KANSAS CITY...INDEPENDENCE 1235 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM ATCHISON SOUTH THROUGH OLATHE AND LEES SUMMIT THROUGH 4 PM. THIS WILL INCLUDE THE AREAS AROUND LEAVENWORTH AND KANSAS CITY THROUGH EXCELSIOR SPRINGS AND BLUE SPRINGS. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 45 MPH. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 30 TO 40 MPH...OR GUSTS RANGING FROM 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. $$ CUTTER
000 WWUS73 KEAX 012156 NPWEAX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 356 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 KSZ025-103>105-MOZ028-029-037-012300- /O.CAN.KEAX.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080301T2200Z/ ATCHISON KS-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS-PLATTE-CLAY-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATCHISON...LEAVENWORTH... KANSAS CITY KS...OVERLAND PARK...OLATHE...PARKVILLE... PLATTE CITY...WESTON...LIBERTY...EXCELSIOR SPRINGS... KANSAS CITY...INDEPENDENCE 356 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE STRONG SUSTAINED SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO UNDER 30 MPH...AND WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THROUGH THE REST OF THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ CUTTER
Nearby
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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.