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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS

February 10, 20259 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm warning at Feb 10, 2025, 2:02 PM CST for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 11, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 10, 2025, 2:02 PM CST (20:02 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 11, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 12, 2025, 11:56 AM CST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 2025-02-10Temperature 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 2025-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 2:02 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryICTAllen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 11 more46 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2025Every winter storm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.