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Snow Squall Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this snow squall warning at Dec 28, 2025, 1:39 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 28, 2025, 1:39 PM CST (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2025, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Geary County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall warning 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 snow squall warning went out at Dec 27, 2:02 PM CST, 23 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 2:02 PM CST, 23 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 12:58 PM CST | Snow Squall Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
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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.