Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 7, 2011, 7:55 AM CST for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2011, 7:55 AM CST (13:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2011, 4:58 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
All 23 counties
Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1255 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 96 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
909 WWUS73 KTOP 071355 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 755 AM CST FRI JAN 7 2011 ...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY... .STRONG WINDS WILL AFFECT MUCH OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS TODAY WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-080000- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0001.110107T1355Z-110108T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...CONCORDIA... CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA... LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 755 AM CST FRI JAN 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY BEFORE TAPERING OFF BY SUNSET. * WINDS...SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL BE COMMON WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
469 WWUS73 KTOP 072258 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 458 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL BE CANCELLED AT 5PM... .STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. EXPECT NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 15 TO 25 MPH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING HOURS. KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-080000- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-110108T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...CONCORDIA... CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA... LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 458 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED TO BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. GUSTY WINDS AROUND 15 TO 25 MPH ARE STILL EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING THEN EXPECT 10 MPH WINDS OUT OF THE NORTHWEST OVERNIGHT. $$ JL
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.