Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 20, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Nov 18, 2011, 3:48 AM CST for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Nov 18, 2011, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2011, 3:48 AM CST (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 18, 2011, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2011, 4:52 PM CST
- In force
- 8 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, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 2550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
104 WWUS73 KTOP 180948 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 348 AM CST FRI NOV 18 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY FROM 9 AM TO 5 PM TODAY... .SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE AFTER SUNRISE THIS MORNING WITH SUSTAINED 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS AND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THE PEAK WIND SPEEDS WILL LIKELY OCCUR BETWEEN 10 AM AND 2 PM BEFORE GRADUALLY TAPERING OFF. KSZ026-037>040-054>056-058-059-182300- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0020.111118T1500Z-111118T2300Z/ JEFFERSON-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN- COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 348 AM CST FRI NOV 18 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE AFTER SUNRISE WITH THE PEAK WIND SPEEDS OCCURRING BETWEEN 10 AM AND 2 PM BEFORE TAPERING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...WIND GUSTS OF THIS STRENGTH MAY CAUSE DIFFICULT TRAVEL ON EAST-WEST ROADWAYS...PARTICULARLY FOR LIGHT HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
2 follow-up statements
984 WWUS73 KTOP 181653 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1053 AM CST FRI NOV 18 2011 KSZ026-037>040-054>056-058-059-182300- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0020.000000T0000Z-111118T2300Z/ JEFFERSON-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN- COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 1053 AM CST FRI NOV 18 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...WIND GUSTS OF THIS STRENGTH MAY CAUSE DIFFICULT TRAVEL ON EAST-WEST ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LIGHTWEIGHT AND UNSECURED OBJECTS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
212 WWUS73 KTOP 182252 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 452 PM CST FRI NOV 18 2011 KSZ026-037>040-054>056-058-059-190000- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0020.000000T0000Z-111118T2300Z/ JEFFERSON-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN- COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 452 PM CST FRI NOV 18 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA BUT WILL REMAIN AROUND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. $$ 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.