Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 12, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Nov 10, 2012, 3:34 AM CST for 23 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Nov 10, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2012, 3:34 AM CST (09:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 10, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
All 23 counties
Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
848 WWUS73 KTOP 100934 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 334 AM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-102230- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0012.121110T1700Z-121111T0600Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...CONCORDIA... CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA... LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 334 AM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. * TIMING...WINDS ARE LIKELY TO INTENSIFY AROUND NOON FROM CONCORDIA TO EMPORIA...WITH THE HIGHER WIND SPEEDS SPREADING INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS BY MID AFTERNOON. THE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST TO WEST ROADS WILL BE DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$ WOLTERS
2 follow-up statements
745 WWUS73 KTOP 102155 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 355 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-110600- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-121111T0600Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...CONCORDIA... CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA... LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 355 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. * TIMING...THE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST TO WEST ROADS WILL BE DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
191 WWUS73 KTOP 110551 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1151 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-110700- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-121111T0600Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA...CONCORDIA... CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY...TOPEKA... LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OTTAWA 1151 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. $$
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.