Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Oct 13, 2014, 3:31 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 13, 2014, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2014, 3:31 AM CDT (08:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2014, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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 (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
142 WWUS73 KTOP 130831 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 331 AM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED THIS MORNING OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... .A STRONG DISTURBANCE WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS AND MISSOURI THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. AS THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW DEEPENS AND LIFTS NORTHEAST...WINDS SHIFT TO THE NORTH...BECOMING STRONG AND GUSTY BY MID MORNING. KSZ008-009-020>022-034>037-132100- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0021.141013T1500Z-141014T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY- MORRIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...MANHATTAN... ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY 331 AM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 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 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...NORTHERLY WINDS INCREASE MID MORNING AND PERSIST THROUGH EARLY EVENING. STRONGEST WIND GUSTS MAY OCCUR DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 AND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH EXPECTED. * IMPACTS...DRIVING MAY BECOME DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY FOR LIGHTWEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST WEST ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
2 follow-up statements
608 WWUS73 KTOP 132016 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 316 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG DISTURBANCE HAS BEEN LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS AND MISSOURI TODAY. AS THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO DEEPEN AND LIFT NORTHEAST AND SKIES GRADUALLY CLEAR OUT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE BECOME GUSTY THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ022-036-037-132130- /O.CAN.KTOP.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-141014T0000Z/ RILEY-GEARY-MORRIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MANHATTAN...JUNCTION CITY 316 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. NORTHERLY WINDS WILL REMAIN BREEZY ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING WITH GUSTS UPWARDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH. $$ KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-140000- /O.CON.KTOP.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-141014T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE 316 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...BREEZY NORTHERLY WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. STRONGEST WIND GUSTS WILL OCCUR DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 AND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 TO 45 MPH EXPECTED. * IMPACTS...DRIVING MAY BECOME DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY FOR LIGHTWEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST WEST ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
971 WWUS73 KTOP 132342 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 642 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-140045- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-141014T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORDIA...CLAY CENTER...ABILENE 642 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. WIND SPEEDS WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING...BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. $$
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.