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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 3, 2015, 3:31 PM CST for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 4, 2015, 1:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2015, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2015, 1:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2015, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in Kansas, 2015Every wind chill advisory in 2015
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.