Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 10, 2008, 5:39 AM CST for 13 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 10, 2008, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2008, 5:39 AM CST (11:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2008, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 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 KICT 101139 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 539 AM CST THU JAN 10 2008 KSZ032-033-047>051-067-068-082-083-091-092-101800- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0002.080110T1200Z-080110T1800Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-RENO- HARVEY-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON... KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...WELLINGTON 539 AM CST THU JAN 10 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL SPREAD ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS MORNING...WITH SOME GUSTS TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE. WINDS WILL WEAKEN TO 15 TO 25 MPH AFTER NOON. 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. $$ SCHRECK/DARMOFAL
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KICT 101756 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1156 AM CST THU JAN 10 2008 KSZ032-033-047>051-067-068-082-083-091-092-101900- /O.EXP.KICT.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080110T1800Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-RENO- HARVEY-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON... KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...WELLINGTON 1156 AM CST THU JAN 10 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY. WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ HOWERTON
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.