Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 31, 2011, 3:00 AM MDT for Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska; 13 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Mar 31, 2011, 8:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2011, 3:00 AM MDT (09:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 31, 2011, 8:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2011, 1:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
098 WWUS73 KGLD 310900 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 AM MDT THU MAR 31 2011 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY... .NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF THE TRI-STATE AREA THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-311700- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0007.110331T1400Z-110331T2300Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON... GOODLAND...COLBY...HOXIE...HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY... QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI...BENKELMAN...TRENTON...MCCOOK 300 AM MDT THU MAR 31 2011 /400 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM MDT /9 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MDT /6 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM MDT /9 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MDT /6 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING/DURATION...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE QUITE RAPIDLY BY MID MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY BEFORE SLOWLY DECREASING BY LATE AFTERNOON. * PEAK WINDS...NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. 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. && $$ 007
1 follow-up statement
396 WWUS73 KGLD 311955 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 155 PM MDT THU MAR 31 2011 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-312100- /O.CAN.KGLD.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-110331T2300Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... CHEYENNE WELLS...ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON... GOODLAND...COLBY...HOXIE...HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY... QUINTER...TRIBUNE...LEOTI...BENKELMAN...TRENTON...MCCOOK 155 PM MDT THU MAR 31 2011 /255 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2011/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS SO FAR TODAY HAVE BEEN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA...HOWEVER GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. THE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE LATER AFTERNOON...BECOMING LIGHT AFTER SUNSET. $$
Nearby
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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.