Kansas, 2025

Heavy Snow in Kansas, February 11 to 12, 2025

February 11 to 12, 2025 · NWS GLD · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Heavy snow developed across most of northwest Kansas during the evening on the 11th and continued through the morning on the 12th. The highest snowfall amounts occurred in Wallace county where the public and emergency manager reported 6-7 inches of snowfall in the town of Sharon Springs.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.

Heavy snow developed across most of northwest Kansas during the evening on the 11th and continued through the morning on the 12th. The highest snowfall amounts occurred in Wallace county where the public and emergency manager reported 6-7 inches of snowfall in the town of Sharon Springs. Another 6.5 inch snow report occurred 7 NNE Ludell as well.

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Event by event

2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Rawlins

When
February 11, 8:00 PM CST to February 12, 8:00 AM CST
Where
Rawlins forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
39.785, -101.076 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A CoCoRaHS report of 6.5 inches of snowfall 7 NNE Ludell was reported. Additional amounts of 5 inches was reported in 7 NNW Blakeman, 1 S Atwood, and 1 N McDonald. Four and a half inches of snow was reported in the town of Atwood.

Heavy Snow, Wallace

When
February 11, 8:45 PM MST to February 12, 6:00 AM MST
Where
Wallace forecast zone
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
38.917, -101.764 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A public report of 7 inches of snow in Sharon Springs. Additional reports of 6 inches of snow in Sharon Springs was reported by the public and the Emergency Manager along with another report of 6 inches 11 NNW of Weskan. A Cocorahs report of 4 inches was also received 10 S Sharon Springs.

What these are

Heavy Snow
Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1235143, 1235149.