Alert archive / Kansas / High Wind Watches / 2025
High Wind Watches in Kansas, December 2025
4 high wind watches in December 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- December 16, 20252 high wind watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:28 PM CST | High Wind Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 14 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:53 PM CST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 22 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:20 AM CST | High Wind Watch | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell | 10 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:27 AM CST | High Wind Watch | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton and 9 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Smith County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Decatur County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Greeley County1
- Logan County1
- Norton County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Barton County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- Rice County1
- Russell County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Gray County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rush County1
- Scott County1
- Stafford County1
- Trego County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.