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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this winter storm warning at Feb 17, 2025, 2:52 AM CST for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 17, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 27 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 17, 2025, 2:52 AM CST (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2025, 8:57 PM CST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2:52 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | TOP | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 41 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:56 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 3 days |
Nearby
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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.