Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2011, 1:12 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2011, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 5:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 2147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
818 WWUS73 KTOP 231812 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 112 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...ANOTHER WINDY DAY FOR THE AREA... KSZ034-035-037-054-058-059-232300- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0004.110323T1812Z-110323T2300Z/ OTTAWA-DICKINSON-MORRIS-LYON-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...EMPORIA 112 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ON WEST TO EAST ROADWAYS ALONG WITH UNSECURED TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE IMPACTS OF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
034 WWUS73 KTOP 232257 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 557 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL BE CANCELLED AT 6 PM... KSZ034-035-037-054-058-059-240000- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-110323T2300Z/ OTTAWA-DICKINSON-MORRIS-LYON-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...EMPORIA 557 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SURFACE WINDS HAVE GRADUALLY SUBSIDED AND WILL CONTINUE TO TAPER OFF AS THE EVENING CONTINUES. EXPECT NORTHWEST WINDS TO DECREASE TO AROUND 10 MPH AROUND SUNSET. $$
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.