Alert archive / Kansas / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this high wind warning at May 9, 2008, 1:55 AM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It took effect at May 9, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2008, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 9, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 9, 2008, 3:01 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:59 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 090655 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 155 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008 KSZ038-039-090900- /O.NEW.KTOP.HW.W.0002.080509T0700Z-080509T0900Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...TOPEKA 155 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS WABAUNSEE AND SHAWNEE COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE DESCENDING THROUGH THE RAIN TOWARDS THE SURFACE. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE COULD PRODUCE DAMAGE. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY $$ WOLTERS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KTOP 090713 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 213 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008 KSZ038-039-090900- /O.CON.KTOP.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080509T0900Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...TOPEKA 213 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS OF 60 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL WABAUNSEE AND SHAWNEE COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH POSSIBLY DESCENDING THROUGH THE RAIN TOWARDS THE SURFACE. SOME AREAS THAT COULD BE IMPACTED INCLUDE ESKRIDGE... DOVER...AUBURN...WILLARD AND TOPEKA. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...AND ALSO CAUSE PROPERTY DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER IN A BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ WOLTERS
000 WWUS73 KTOP 090801 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 301 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008 KSZ038-039-090915- /O.CAN.KTOP.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080509T0900Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...TOPEKA 301 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF THE WIND SPEED HAVE DECREASED AND NO LONGER INDICATE DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. GUSTY WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD AS THE LIGHT SHOWER ACTIVITY MOVES EAST. $$ WOLTERS
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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.