Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at May 4, 2011, 12:36 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2011, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
267 WWUS73 KICT 041736 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1236 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY... .SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO DEEPEN OVER WESTERN KANSAS TODAY WHICH WILL TIGHTEN UP THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. THIS WILL CAUSE SOUTHERLY WINDS TO BECOME STRONG AND GUSTY OVER THE REGION TODAY. KSZ032-033-047>053-067>069-082-083-091-092-050000- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0009.110504T1736Z-110505T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- CHASE-RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA... KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...WELLINGTON 1236 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...OF VERY STRONG SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL PERSIST OVER CENTRAL...AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * WINDS...SUSTAINED OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL OCCUR OVER THE ADVISORY AREA. * IMPACTS...STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTATED ROADWAYS. 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. && $$ JAKUB
1 follow-up statement
772 WWUS73 KICT 042357 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 657 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>069-082-083-091-092-050100- /O.EXP.KICT.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-110505T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- CHASE-RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... COTTONWOOD FALLS...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA... KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...WELLINGTON 657 PM CDT WED MAY 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ JMC
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.