Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at May 18, 2012, 3:18 AM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Republic County, Kansas. It took effect at May 18, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2012, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2012, 6:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 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 08:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.3 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
794 WWUS73 KTOP 180818 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 318 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 KSZ008-020-034-181630- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0008.120518T1600Z-120519T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 318 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS MORNING AND PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO NEAR 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
2 follow-up statements
689 WWUS73 KTOP 181630 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1130 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 KSZ008-020-034-190000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-120519T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 1130 AM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE BY NOON AND PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
207 WWUS73 KTOP 182359 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 659 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 KSZ008-020-034-190100- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-120519T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-CLOUD-OTTAWA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CONCORDIA 659 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DECREASED SINCE EARLIER TODAY...AND SHOULD REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS TONIGHT. $$
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.