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Wind Advisory 22, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Nov 2, 2014, 3:55 AM CST for Dickinson County, Morris County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It took effect at Nov 2, 2014, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 2014, 3:55 AM CST (09:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 2, 2014, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2014, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Dickinson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:59 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 (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 2531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
987 WWUS73 KTOP 020955 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 355 AM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 KSZ034-035-037-022200- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0022.141102T1700Z-141102T2300Z/ OTTAWA-DICKINSON-MORRIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ABILENE 355 AM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH LATE MORNING THEN DECREASE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. * WINDS...25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF THESE WINDS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG EAST OR WEST ORIENTED ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE ACTION TO SECURE TRASH CANS...LAWN FURNITURE...AND OTHER LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
192 WWUS73 KTOP 022252 AAA NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 452 PM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 KSZ034-035-037-030000- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-141102T2300Z/ OTTAWA-DICKINSON-MORRIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ABILENE 452 PM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...THEY WILL REMAIN WELL BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM. $$
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.