Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 1, 2008, 11:25 AM CST for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2008, 11:25 AM CST (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2008, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 KTOP 011725 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1125 AM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 .A DEEPENING SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS HAS CAUSED THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS TO TIGHTEN. THE TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL RESULT IN SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THE WINDS SHOULD DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES EAST INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. KSZ021>024-026-034>040-054-055-012200- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0004.080301T1725Z-080301T2200Z/ CLAY-RILEY-POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY- MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE... JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA 1125 AM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL AFFECT THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 40 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KTOP 012151 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 351 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 KSZ021>024-026-034>040-054-055-012300- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080301T2200Z/ CLAY-RILEY-POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY- MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE... JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA 351 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. $$
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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.