Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2009, 2:38 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 6, 2009, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2009, 2:38 AM CST (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2009, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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, 8.6 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
- 2799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 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 060838 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 238 AM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... .A DEEPENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE FROM NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS MORNING...INTO SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. TO THE SOUTH OF THE LOW PRESSURE...A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON LEADING TO STRONG SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS. AS THE THE SUN SETS THIS EVENING...AND THE LOW MOVES FARTHER AWAY FROM THE AREA...WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH. KSZ035-037-054>056-058-059-061645- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.090206T1800Z-090207T0000Z/ DICKINSON-MORRIS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 238 AM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING. BY EARLY AFTERNOON...WINDS SPEEDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. THESE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING BY EARLY EVENING. TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KTOP 061637 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1037 AM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 .STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND PERSISTENT HIGH PRESSURE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES WILL CREATE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON....AND RESULT IN STRONG WINDS. THE NORTHERN PLAINS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE OFF TO THE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING AND ALLOW THE WINDS TO SUBSIDE. KSZ035-037-054>056-058-059-070000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.090206T1800Z-090207T0000Z/ DICKINSON-MORRIS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 1037 AM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT SUSTAINED SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. THE WINDS WILL WEAKEN AROUND SUNSET. DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...OR OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. $$
000 WWUS73 KTOP 062129 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 329 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 KSZ035-037-054>056-058-059-070000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-090207T0000Z/ DICKINSON-MORRIS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 329 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE THE WINDS WILL STILL BE STRONG OVERNIGHT...THEY WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH BY SUNSET. DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...OR OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS... ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. $$ WOLTERS
000 WWUS73 KTOP 062357 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 557 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... KSZ035-037-054>056-058-059-070100- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-090207T0000Z/ DICKINSON-MORRIS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 557 PM CST FRI FEB 6 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE WINDS SHOULD DIMINISH BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. $$
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.