Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 17, 2015, 12:28 PM CST for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 2015, 12:28 PM CST (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2015, 4:32 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
583 WWUS73 KICT 171828 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1228 PM CST SAT JAN 17 2015 KSZ032-033-047>052-067-068-082-083-091-092-172300- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0001.150117T1828Z-150117T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- RENO-HARVEY-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...SYLVAN GROVE...BEVERLY... BARNARD...GREAT BEND...ELLSWORTH...WILSON...SALINA...LYONS... STERLING...MCPHERSON...HILLSBORO...MARION...PEABODY... HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER... ATTICA...WELLINGTON 1228 PM CST SAT JAN 17 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED FROM 1 PM TO AROUND 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING, ESPECIALLY IN HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADS. LIGHT WEIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS OR OUTDOOR FURNITURE MAY BE TOSSED AROUND BY THE WIND. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
882 WWUS73 KICT 172232 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 432 PM CST SAT JAN 17 2015 KSZ032-033-047>052-067-068-082-083-091-092-172345- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-150117T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION- RENO-HARVEY-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...SYLVAN GROVE...BEVERLY... BARNARD...GREAT BEND...ELLSWORTH...WILSON...SALINA...LYONS... STERLING...MCPHERSON...HILLSBORO...MARION...PEABODY... HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER... ATTICA...WELLINGTON 432 PM CST SAT JAN 17 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH TOWARD SUNSET WITH SPEEDS DROPPING TO 15 MPH OR LESS SHORTLY AFTER DARK. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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.