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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS

December 17, 20255 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this high wind watch at Dec 17, 2025, 3:20 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 2025, 3:20 AM CST (09:20 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 18, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 17, 2025, 1:32 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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 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 Dec 16, 5:34 PM CST, 9 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 5:34 PM CST, 9 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 16, 2:04 PM CST, 13 hours 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 3:20 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more	39 hr
Dec 17, 1:32 PM CST	High Wind Warning	ICT	Barton, Chase, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 9 more	26 hr
Dec 17, 1:34 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more	28 hr

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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.