Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2012, 4:11 PM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 25, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 4:11 PM CST (22:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2012, 8:25 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
807 WWUS73 KICT 242211 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 411 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL RETURN TO CENTRAL AND WESTERN KANSAS ON SATURDAY... .AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF EASTERN COLORADO WILL STRENGTHEN ON SATURDAY ALLOWING SOUTH WINDS TO INCREASE ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN KANSAS. THE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE DURING THE EVENING HOURS ON SATURDAY. KSZ032-047-251215- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0008.120225T1500Z-120226T0300Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...GREAT BEND 411 PM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 9 PM CST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 9 PM CST SATURDAY. * TIMING...SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA BY MID MORNING ON SATURDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS AT 25 TO 35 WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED * IMPACTS...THE STRONG SOUTH WINDS MAY MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. 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. && $$ MWM
2 follow-up statements
799 WWUS73 KICT 250858 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 258 AM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 KSZ033-048-050-067-082-252300- /O.EXB.KICT.WI.Y.0008.120225T1700Z-120226T0300Z/ LINCOLN-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLN...ELLSWORTH...LYONS... HUTCHINSON...KINGMAN 258 AM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...VERY STRONG SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON IN THE ADVISORY AREA. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG SOUTH WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ KSZ032-047-252300- /O.EXT.KICT.WI.Y.0008.120225T1700Z-120226T0300Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...GREAT BEND 258 AM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...VERY STRONG SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA...FOR LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG SOUTH WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. 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. && $$ JAKUB
716 WWUS73 KICT 260225 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 825 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-260330- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-120226T0300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...GREAT BEND... ELLSWORTH...LYONS...HUTCHINSON...KINGMAN 825 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS ARE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING ACROSS THE PREVIOUSLY ADVISED AREAS. AS SUCH...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE AREAS GENERALLY ALONG...AND WEST...OF HIGHWAY 14. $$ ES
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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.