Alert archive / Kansas / Wind Advisories in 2017
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind advisory at Jan 10, 2017, 1:55 AM CST for 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2017, 1:55 AM CST (07:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2017, 7:35 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
346 WWUS73 KICT 100755 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 155 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 KSZ071-072-095-096-099-100-101500- /O.NEW.KICT.WI.Y.0003.170110T0755Z-170110T1500Z/ WOODSON-ALLEN-WILSON-NEOSHO-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YATES CENTER...IOLA...HUMBOLDT... NEODESHA...FREDONIA...CHANUTE...COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE... PARSONS 155 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING. * WINDS...SUSTAINED FROM THE SOUTH AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. * TIMING...THE REST OF THE NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE TRAVELING IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND ON EAST/WEST ORIENTED HIGHWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH AND/OR GUSTS FROM 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ ES
1 follow-up statement
118 WWUS73 KICT 101335 NPWICT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 KSZ071-072-095-096-099-100-101445- /O.CAN.KICT.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-170110T1500Z/ WOODSON-ALLEN-WILSON-NEOSHO-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...YATES CENTER...IOLA...HUMBOLDT... NEODESHA...FREDONIA...CHANUTE...COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE... PARSONS 735 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WITH WINDS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS HAVING DIMINISHED TO 15 TO 25 MPH...THE WIND ADVISORY THAT WAS ISSUED AT 155 AM CST HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ ES
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.