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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this high wind warning at Nov 3, 2013, 11:14 AM CST for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 2013, 11:14 AM CST (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2013, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 3:30 PM CST | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 5 Ne Bunker Hill, KS | A COUPLE ROAD SIGNS BLOWN DOWN NEAR WILSON LAKE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105 WWUS73 KICT 031714 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1114 AM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 KSZ032-047-040100- /O.UPG.KICT.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-131104T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KICT.HW.W.0002.131103T1714Z-131104T0100Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...GREAT BEND 1114 AM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...UNUSUALLY STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY. * WINDS...SUSTAINED AT 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 55 MPH WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS * IMPACTS...OF WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY ON EAST-WEST ORIENTED ROADS AND INTERSTATE 70 IN CENTRAL KANSAS. LIGHT OBJECTS OUTSIDE SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND YARD FURNITURE COULD BE DAMAGED OR BLOWN AWAY. IN ADDITION...SMALL TREE LIMBS COULD BE KNOCKED DOWN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN CAUSE PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ KSZ033-048>052-067-068-082-083-091-040100- /O.CON.KICT.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-131104T0100Z/ LINCOLN-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-RENO-HARVEY- KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLN...ELLSWORTH...SALINA...LYONS... MCPHERSON...MARION...HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...KINGMAN...WICHITA... ANTHONY...HARPER 1114 AM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...VERY STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED AT 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH WILL AFFECT CENTRAL KANSAS...AND WINDS AROUND 30 MPH AND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY ON EAST-WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ JAKUB
1 follow-up statement
034 WWUS73 KICT 040103 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 703 PM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 KSZ032-047-040600- /O.EXP.KICT.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-131104T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0020.131104T0103Z-131104T0600Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...GREAT BEND 703 PM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...UNUSUALLY STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT CENTRAL KANSAS INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. * WINDS...SUSTAINED AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE EVENING AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. * IMPACTS...OF WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY ON EAST-WEST ORIENTED ROADS AND INTERSTATE 70 IN CENTRAL KANSAS. LIGHT OBJECTS OUTSIDE SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND YARD FURNITURE COULD BE DAMAGED OR BLOWN AWAY. IN ADDITION...SMALL TREE LIMBS COULD BE KNOCKED DOWN. 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. && $$ KSZ033-048-040600- /O.EXP.KICT.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-131104T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0020.131104T0103Z-131104T0600Z/ LINCOLN-ELLSWORTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINCOLN...ELLSWORTH 703 PM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...VERY STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT CENTRAL KANSAS INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. * WINDS...SUSTAINED AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL AFFECT CENTRAL KANSAS. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY ON EAST-WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ KSZ049>052-067-068-082-083-091-040215- /O.EXP.KICT.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-131104T0100Z/ SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-RENO-HARVEY-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SALINA...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION... HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER 703 PM CST SUN NOV 3 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY LIMITS ALLOWING THE ADVISORY TO EXPIRE ON TIME. $$ BILLINGS WRIGHT
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.