Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 16, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 7, 2011, 3:48 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 7, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2011, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 7, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 3293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
548 WWUS73 KTOP 070848 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 348 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-071700- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0016.111007T1500Z-111008T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE 348 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WIND SPEEDS WILL INCREASE DURING THE MORNING HOURS AND DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PARTICULARLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. BLOWING DUST COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES. LIGHT AND UNSECURED OBJECTS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE WIND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
3 follow-up statements
654 WWUS73 KTOP 071844 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 144 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-080000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-111008T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE 144 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 7 PM CDT. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PARTICULARLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. BLOWING DUST COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES. LIGHT AND UNSECURED OBJECTS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE WIND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
757 WWUS73 KTOP 072025 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 325 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-080000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-111008T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE 325 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 7 PM CDT. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PARTICULARLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. BLOWING DUST COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES. LIGHT AND UNSECURED OBJECTS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE WIND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
931 WWUS73 KTOP 072351 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 651 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-080100- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-111008T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE 651 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. THEREFORE...THE ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...WINDS OF 15 TO 20 WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. $$
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.