Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 17, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 25, 2011, 3:38 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 25, 2011, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2011, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 25, 2011, 6:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2011, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 3458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
014 WWUS73 KTOP 250838 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 338 AM CDT TUE OCT 25 2011 KSZ026-038>040-054>056-058-059-251700- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0017.111025T1100Z-111025T1700Z/ JEFFERSON-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY- ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 338 AM CDT TUE OCT 25 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TODAY. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS SHOULD BE STRONGEST DURING THE MORNING...THEN GRADUALLY DIMINISH BUT STILL BE GUSTY THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE WIND WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ WOLTERS
2 follow-up statements
812 WWUS73 KTOP 251634 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1134 AM CDT TUE OCT 25 2011 KSZ026-038>040-054>056-058-059-252000- /O.EXT.KTOP.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-111025T2000Z/ JEFFERSON-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY- ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 1134 AM CDT TUE OCT 25 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS SHOULD BE STRONGEST THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. WIND SPEEDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH BY LATE AFTERNOON BUT REMAIN GUSTY. * IMPACTS...THE WIND WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...PARTICULARLY ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
321 WWUS73 KTOP 251956 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 256 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2011 KSZ026-038>040-054>056-058-059-252100- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-111025T2000Z/ JEFFERSON-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY- ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 256 PM CDT TUE OCT 25 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. HOWEVER...WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE INTO THE OVERNIGHT. $$ ANDERSON
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.