Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 29, 2015, 3:09 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2015, 3:09 AM CST (09:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2015, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Brown County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 2320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
113 WWUS73 KTOP 290909 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 309 AM CST THU JAN 29 2015 KSZ009>012-023-024-026-291300- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.150129T0909Z-150129T1300Z/ WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA 309 AM CST THU JAN 29 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CST THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CST THIS MORNING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE OCCURRING. THESE WINDS SHOULD GRADUALLY SUBSIDE BY 7 AM. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ALONG HIGHWAY 36. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN WINDS ARE SUSTAINED AT 31 TO 40 MPH OR WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH. && $$ WOLTERS
1 follow-up statement
373 WWUS73 KTOP 291238 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 638 AM CST THU JAN 29 2015 KSZ009>012-023-024-026-291345- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-150129T1300Z/ WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARYSVILLE...HIAWATHA 638 AM CST THU JAN 29 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 AM CST THIS MORNING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 AM CST THIS MORNING. WINDS HAVE GRADUALLY DIMINISHED AND ARE NOT AS STRONG AS THEY WHERE EARLIER THIS MORNING. THEREFORE THE ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 AM. NORTHWEST WINDS SHOULD REMAIN BREEZY WITH GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH INTO THE AFTERNOON. $$ WOLTERS
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.