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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this high wind watch at Mar 13, 2025, 2:38 AM CDT for 8 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 13, 2025, 2:38 AM CDT (07:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2025, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 13, 12:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 12:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2:47 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TOP | Anderson, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin and 11 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 9 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:49 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.