Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind advisory at May 18, 2012, 2:53 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 18, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2012, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 3935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
258 WWUS73 KGID 180753 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 253 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY... .SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INTENSIFY THIS MORNING...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH...EXPECTED LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ006-007-017>019-181600- /O.NEW.KGID.WI.Y.0021.120518T1600Z-120519T0100Z/ SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SMITH CENTER...MANKATO...PLAINVILLE... STOCKTON...OSBORNE...BELOIT 253 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 25 TO 35 MPH...ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INTENSIFY THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED SO THEY ARE NOT BLOWN AROUND BY THE STRONG WINDS. IN ADDITION...DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT TODAY...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING EAST OR WEST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS BETWEEN 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ BRYANT
3 follow-up statements
193 WWUS73 KGID 181601 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1101 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... .SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INTENSIFY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH... EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ006-007-017>019-190015- /O.CON.KGID.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-120519T0100Z/ SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SMITH CENTER...MANKATO...PLAINVILLE... STOCKTON...OSBORNE...BELOIT 1101 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 25 TO 35 MPH...ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INTENSIFY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED FROM MID AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED SO THEY ARE NOT BLOWN AROUND BY THE STRONG WINDS. IN ADDITION...DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT TODAY...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING EAST OR WEST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS BETWEEN 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
162 WWUS73 KGID 182056 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 356 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH...EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ006-007-017>019-190100- /O.CON.KGID.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-120519T0100Z/ SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SMITH CENTER...MANKATO...PLAINVILLE... STOCKTON...OSBORNE...BELOIT 356 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THE WIND WILL REMAIN STRONG THROUGH EARLY EVENING...WITH THE WIND GRADUALLY BECOMING LIGHTER BY AROUND SUNSET. * IMPACTS...OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED SO THEY ARE NOT BLOWN AROUND BY THE STRONG WINDS. IN ADDITION...DRIVING MAY BE DIFFICULT TODAY...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING EAST OR WEST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS BETWEEN 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
713 WWUS73 KGID 190048 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 748 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 KSZ006-007-017>019-190200- /O.EXP.KGID.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-120519T0100Z/ SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SMITH CENTER...MANKATO...PLAINVILLE... STOCKTON...OSBORNE...BELOIT 748 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL BE STEADY AND GUSTY AT TIMES INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...WIND SPEEDS HAVE BEGUN TO SUBSIDE AND HAVE DROPPED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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.