Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2017
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 9, 2017, 4:51 AM CST for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 9, 2017, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2017, 4:51 AM CST (10:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2017, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2017, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Marion County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 612 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
738 WWUS73 KICT 091051 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 451 AM CST MON JAN 9 2017 KSZ052-053-069>072-094>096-092300- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0002.170109T1800Z-170109T2300Z/ MARION-CHASE-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HILLSBORO...MARION...PEABODY... COTTONWOOD FALLS...STRONG CITY...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA...ANDOVER... ROSE HILL...EUREKA...MADISON...YATES CENTER...IOLA...HUMBOLDT... HOWARD...MOLINE...LONGTON...GRENOLA...NEODESHA...FREDONIA... CHANUTE 451 AM CST MON JAN 9 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED BETWEEN 1 PM AND 4 PM. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL NEED TO BE ESPECIALLY ALERT ON EAST WEST ROADS AND WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE FLINT HILLS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
787 WWUS73 KICT 092248 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 448 PM CST MON JAN 9 2017 KSZ052-053-069>072-094>096-100000- /O.EXP.KICT.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-170109T2300Z/ MARION-CHASE-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HILLSBORO...MARION...PEABODY... COTTONWOOD FALLS...STRONG CITY...EL DORADO...AUGUSTA...ANDOVER... ROSE HILL...EUREKA...MADISON...YATES CENTER...IOLA...HUMBOLDT... HOWARD...MOLINE...LONGTON...GRENOLA...NEODESHA...FREDONIA... CHANUTE 448 PM CST MON JAN 9 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE EARLY THIS EVENING AND THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.