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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Wichita, KS

January 16, 20125 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 16, 2012, 3:59 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 16, 2012, 3:59 AM CST (09:59 UTC)
Expired: Jan 16, 2012, 11:05 AM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Allen County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 431 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 469 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

273 
WWUS73 KICT 160959
NPWICT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
359 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012


KSZ072-095-096-099-100-162100-
/O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0003.120116T1000Z-120116T2100Z/
ALLEN-WILSON-NEOSHO-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...IOLA...FREDONIA...CHANUTE...ERIE...
COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...PARSONS
359 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. 

* TIMING...EARLY MORNING THROUGH MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON.

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS AT SPEEDS SUSTAINED BETWEEN 30 AND 35 MPH WITH
  GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

* IMPACTS...TRAVEL MAY BECOME DIFFICULT FOR MOTORISTS AT TIMES
  PARTICULARLY THOSE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH
AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED.  WINDS THIS STRONG
CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE
VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

$$

LAWSON

1 follow-up statement

590 
WWUS73 KICT 161705
NPWICT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1105 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012


KSZ072-095-096-099-100-161815-
/O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120116T2100Z/
ALLEN-WILSON-NEOSHO-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...IOLA...FREDONIA...CHANUTE...ERIE...
COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...PARSONS
1105 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. 

SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH
ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE THE
WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

$$

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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.