Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 26, 2012, 3:52 AM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Republic County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 26, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2012, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 26, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2012, 3:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
728 WWUS73 KTOP 260852 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 352 AM CDT MON MAR 26 2012 KSZ008-020-034-261815- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0006.120326T1800Z-120327T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 352 AM CDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...WITH AFTERNOON SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS IN THE 30 MPH RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * WINDS...BECOMING SUSTAINED 30 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH. STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH IN THE EVENING BUT REMAIN BREEZY OVERNIGHT. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...OR OTHER HIGH- PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
2 follow-up statements
043 WWUS73 KTOP 261659 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1159 AM CDT MON MAR 26 2012 KSZ008-020-034-270000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0006.120326T1800Z-120327T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 1159 AM CDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE INTO THE AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS IN THE 30 MPH RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE EXPECTED. * WINDS...BECOMING SUSTAINED 30 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH. STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH IN THE EVENING BUT REMAIN BREEZY OVERNIGHT. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...OR OTHER HIGH- PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
974 WWUS73 KTOP 262024 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 324 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2012 KSZ008-020-034-262130- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-120327T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 324 PM CDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTH WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY INTO THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. HOWEVER THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...THEREFOR THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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.