Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 17, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jun 20, 2011, 7:05 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2011, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2011, 2:41 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
640 WWUS73 KICT 210005 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 705 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING. KSZ032-033-047>050-210815- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0017.110621T0005Z-110621T1200Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS 705 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY. * TIMING...STRONG WEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA UNTIL 7AM TUESDAY MORNING. * WINDS...WEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED AT ABOUT 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG CROSS WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED HIGHWAYS. LOOSE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ ELDER
1 follow-up statement
166 WWUS73 KICT 210741 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 241 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2011 KSZ032-033-047>050-210845- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-110621T1200Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS 241 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE STARTED TO DECREASE EARLY THIS MORNING AND THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood | 52 min |
| Jun 20, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson | 52 min |
| Jun 20, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson | 82 min |
| Jun 20, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 69 min |
| Jun 21, 3:27 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 14 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.