Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 12, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Mar 29, 2016, 3:53 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 29, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2016, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 29, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
733 WWUS73 KICT 290853 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 353 AM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016 ...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS RETURN THIS AFTERNOON... .AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL STRENGTHEN ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO TODAY CAUSING STRONG SOUTH WINDS TO DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN KANSAS. KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-292300- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0012.160329T1800Z-160330T0200Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...SYLVAN GROVE... GREAT BEND...ELLSWORTH...WILSON...LYONS...STERLING...HUTCHINSON 353 AM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...OF THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED FROM MIDDAY THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LOOSE AND LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR ITEMS SHOULD BE PROPERLY STOWED OR PROTECTED FROM THE STRONG WINDS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
134 WWUS73 KICT 291958 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 258 PM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016 KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-300200- /O.CON.KICT.WI.Y.0012.000000T0000Z-160330T0200Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...LINCOLN...SYLVAN GROVE... GREAT BEND...ELLSWORTH...WILSON...LYONS...STERLING...HUTCHINSON 258 PM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LOOSE AND LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR ITEMS SHOULD BE PROPERLY STOWED OR PROTECTED FROM THE STRONG WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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.