Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2016, 10:45 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2016, 10:45 AM CST (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2016, 3:40 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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, 4.8 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
- 2574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
318 WWUS73 KICT 281645 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1045 AM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 KSZ032-033-047>051-282200- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0006.160228T1645Z-160228T2200Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...SYLVAN GROVE...BEVERLY... BARNARD...GREAT BEND...ELLSWORTH...WILSON...SALINA...LYONS... STERLING...MCPHERSON 1045 AM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...OUT OF THE NORTHWEST AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH MID TO LATE AFTERNOON TODAY. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
544 WWUS73 KICT 282140 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 340 PM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 KSZ032-033-047>051-282245- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-160228T2200Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RUSSELL...SYLVAN GROVE...BEVERLY... BARNARD...GREAT BEND...ELLSWORTH...WILSON...SALINA...LYONS... STERLING...MCPHERSON 340 PM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 11:09 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell and 1 more | 6 hr |
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.