Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind advisory at Dec 20, 2015, 3:03 AM CST for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 20, 2015, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2015, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2015, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 40 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 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 518 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
933 WWUS73 KTOP 200903 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 303 AM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 KSZ035>040-054>056-058-059-210000- /O.NEW.KTOP.WI.Y.0007.151220T1400Z-151221T0000Z/ DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE- FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY... COUNCIL GROVE...ALMA...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OSAGE CITY... OTTAWA...BURLINGTON...LEBO...GARNETT 303 AM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
891 WWUS73 KTOP 210004 NPWTOP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 604 PM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 KSZ035>040-054>056-058-059-210115- /O.EXP.KTOP.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-151221T0000Z/ DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE- FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...JUNCTION CITY... COUNCIL GROVE...ALMA...TOPEKA...LAWRENCE...EMPORIA...OSAGE CITY... OTTAWA...BURLINGTON...LEBO...GARNETT 604 PM CST SUN DEC 20 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY DECREASE THIS EVENING, WITH GUSTS GENERALLY LESS THAN 35 MPH. $$
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.