Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at May 15, 2009, 2:37 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2009, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2009, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KGLD 151937 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 137 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 2009 KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-160000- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0021.090515T1937Z-090516T0000Z/ CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN... NORTON...GOODLAND...COLBY...HOXIE...HILL CITY...BENKELMAN... TRENTON...MCCOOK 137 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 2009 /237 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. NORTHERLY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING EARLY THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS MAY AFFECT TRAVEL...ESPECIALLY LIGHT WEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN WIND GUSTS WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KGLD 152210 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 410 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 2009 KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-152315- /O.CAN.KGLD.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-090516T0000Z/ CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN... NORTON...GOODLAND...COLBY...HOXIE...HILL CITY...BENKELMAN... TRENTON...MCCOOK 410 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 2009 /510 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2009/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
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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.