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Extreme Cold Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

February 16, 202527 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this extreme cold watch at Feb 16, 2025, 3:10 AM CST for 27 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2025, 3:10 AM CST (09:10 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 17, 2025, 3:12 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

All 27 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this extreme cold watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this extreme cold watch went out at Feb 16, 3:00 AM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:00 AM CST, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 3:26 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DDC	Barber, Edwards, Ellis, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Lane and 7 more	32 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.