Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 21, 2011, 5:35 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 21, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 2011, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 21, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2011, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
788 WWUS73 KGLD 212235 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 435 PM MDT MON MAR 21 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY EVENING... .SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY EVENING BEFORE DISSIPATING SHORTLY THEREAFTER. KSZ013>015-027>029-041-042-220300- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0004.110321T2300Z-110322T0300Z/ SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GOODLAND...COLBY...HOXIE... SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI 435 PM MDT MON MAR 21 2011 /535 PM CDT MON MAR 21 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. * TIMING/DURATION...WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * PEAK WINDS...PEAK WINDS OF 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * OTHER IMPACTS...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES ARE POSSIBLE. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
361 WWUS73 KGLD 220145 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 745 PM MDT MON MAR 21 2011 KSZ013>015-027>029-041-042-220245- /O.CAN.KGLD.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-110322T0300Z/ SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GOODLAND...COLBY...HOXIE... SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI 745 PM MDT MON MAR 21 2011 /845 PM CDT MON MAR 21 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 4:23 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 21, 6:22 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 5 hr |
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.