Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 20, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 6, 2011, 7:38 PM CDT for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2011, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
624 WWUS73 KICT 070038 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 738 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2011 KSZ032-047-070500- /O.CAN.KICT.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-111007T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0020.111007T0038Z-111007T0500Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...GREAT BEND 738 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. * IMPACTS...INCLUDE POTENTIAL DIFFICULTY FOR DRIVERS DUE TO THE STRONG AND SUDDEN GUSTS AT TIMES. THIS WILL BE ESPECIALLY MORE NOTICEABLE WITH CROSS WINDS ON WEST TO EAST ORIENTED HIGHWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH AND OR GUSTS GREATER THAN 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN CAUSE PROPERTY DAMAGE. BE EXTRA CAREFUL DRIVING THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. && $$ KSZ033-048>053-067>069-082-083-091>093-070145- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-111007T0100Z/ LINCOLN-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-RENO-HARVEY- BUTLER-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER-COWLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLN...ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS... MCPHERSON...MARION...COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON... EL DORADO...AUGUSTA...KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER... WELLINGTON...WINFIELD...ARKANSAS CITY 738 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. EVEN THOUGH SOUTH WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY OVERNIGHT...THEY HAVE FALLEN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$ LAWSON
1 follow-up statement
282 WWUS73 KICT 070511 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1211 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSZ032-047-070615- /O.EXP.KICT.WI.Y.0020.000000T0000Z-111007T0500Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...GREAT BEND 1211 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN JUST BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 3:44 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey and 10 more | 15 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.