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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Hastings, NE

December 17, 20256 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Dec 17, 2025, 1:16 PM CST for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr. 27 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 2025, 1:16 PM CST (19:16 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 18, 2025, 10:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 18, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 18, 10:04 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 692 Wsw Lebanon, KSKSU Mesonet reports gust to 69mph.
Dec 18, 10:05 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 663 Wnw Jewell, KSKSU Mesonet. 10 meter peak gust.
Dec 18, 10:06 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 645 S Ionia, KSDavis Weather Station.
Dec 18, 10:11 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 649 Nw Burr Oak, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 64mph.
Dec 18, 10:14 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 626 N Plainville, KSKSU Mesonet reports gust to 62mph.
Dec 18, 10:15 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 59Smith Center Airport, KSPossibly not the peak. Observations dropped out shortly after this.
Dec 18, 10:21 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 72Jewell, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 72mph.
Dec 18, 10:27 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 602 N Glen Elder, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 60mph.
Dec 18, 10:29 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 726 Wsw Beloit, KSKSU Mesonet reports gust to 72mph.
Dec 18, 10:30 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 673 S Lebanon, KSKSDOT Station.
Dec 18, 10:45 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 634 Wsw Beloit, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 63mph.
Dec 18, 10:48 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 603 Nw Cawker City, KSDavis Weather Station.
Dec 18, 10:56 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 653 Wnw Jewell, KSKSU Mesonet reports gust to 65mph.
Dec 18, 11:03 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 771 Se Harlan, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 77mph.
Dec 18, 11:25 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 601 Nnw Osborne, KSKSU Mesonet. 10 meter gust.
Dec 18, 11:30 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 71Agra, KSAmbient Weather Station.
Dec 18, 11:30 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 71Agra, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 71mph.
Dec 18, 11:35 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 55Phillipsburg Airport, KSAWOS reports gust to 55mph.
Dec 18, 11:35 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 783 Nw Natoma, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 78mph.
Dec 18, 11:55 AM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 58Phillipsburg Airport, KSUpdates previous non-tstm wnd gst report from Phillipsburg Airport. AWOS reports gust to 58mph.
Dec 18, 12:00 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 591 W Logan, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 59mph.
Dec 18, 12:17 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 771 Wnw Randall, KSPersonal Weather station reports gust to 77mph.
Dec 18, 12:20 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 584 Ese Long Island, KSDavis Weather Station.
Dec 18, 12:30 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 582 Wsw Phillipsburg, KSKSU Mesonet. 10 Meter Gust.
Dec 18, 1:00 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 671 W Logan, KSMesonet station EW3001 Logan 1 W.
Dec 18, 2:13 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 601 Sse Phillipsburg, KSAWOS station KPHG Phillipsburg Airport.
Dec 18, 2:15 PM CSTNON-TSTM WND GST 689 N Stockton, KSKSDOT Station.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2025-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2025-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Dec 17, 11:54 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 11:54 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 3:22 AM CSTHigh Wind WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more39 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2025Every red flag warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.