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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this high wind watch at Mar 12, 2025, 7:51 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2025, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 8:13 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 12, 7:04 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 7:04 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:20 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 30 hr |
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High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2025Every high wind watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.