Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2012, 3:25 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
720 WWUS73 KGLD 242125 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 225 PM MST FRI FEB 24 2012 COZ090-091-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-250000- /O.NEW.KGLD.WI.Y.0009.120224T2125Z-120225T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS- SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON...GOODLAND...COLBY... HOXIE...HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...QUINTER... BENKELMAN...TRENTON...MCCOOK 225 PM MST FRI FEB 24 2012 /325 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING/DURATION...STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...BUT WILL DIMINISH RAPIDLY NEAR SUNSET. * PEAK WINDS...PEAK WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * OTHER IMPACTS...BLOWING DIRT MAY CREATE AREAS OF REDUCED VISIBILITY...USE CAUTION IN THESE AREAS. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO VARY GREATLY IN SPEEDS...BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN STRONG WIND GUSTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS MAY AFFECT TRAVEL...ESPECIALLY LIGHT WEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN WIND GUSTS WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. && $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
572 WWUS73 KGLD 250002 NPWGLD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 502 PM MST FRI FEB 24 2012 COZ090-091-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-250115- /O.EXP.KGLD.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-120225T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS- SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON... ST. FRANCIS...ATWOOD...OBERLIN...NORTON...GOODLAND...COLBY... HOXIE...HILL CITY...SHARON SPRINGS...OAKLEY...QUINTER... BENKELMAN...TRENTON...MCCOOK 502 PM MST FRI FEB 24 2012 /602 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO DECREASE ACROSS THE AREA AND WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN THROUGH THE EVENING. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
Nearby
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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.