Storm Mode

Kansas

Every kind of warning, watch and advisory this site carries · area: KS

UTC

10:32 PM CDT Wichita

Map

  • Freeze Warning 10
  • Frost Advisory 5

NWS’s polygons as issued, or the zones a zone-issued alert names; SPC’s watches by their counties. Checked . Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC.

In force in this area 15

  1. Freeze Warning109 not yet in effect · until 15:00Z
  2. Frost Advisory51 new · 5 not yet in effect · until 14:00Z
Every alert in this area, most urgent first
  1. Freeze WarningCimarron; Texas; Beaver; Dallam; Sherman; Hansford; Ochiltree; Lipscomb; Hartley; Moore; Hutchinson; Roberts; Hemphill; Oldham; Potter; Carson; Gray; Deaf Smith; Randall; Armstrong; Palo Duro CanyonFrom · until · NWS Amarillo TX · drawn over this area
  2. Freeze WarningTrego; Ellis; Scott; Lane; Ness; Rush; Hamilton; Kearny; Finney; Hodgeman; Pawnee; Stafford; Stanton; Grant; Haskell; Gray; Ford; Edwards; Kiowa; Pratt; Morton; Stevens; Seward; Meade; Clark; Comanche; BarberFrom · until · NWS Dodge City KS
  3. Freeze WarningAtchison; Doniphan; Atchison; Nodaway; Worth; Gentry; Harrison; Mercer; Putnam; Holt; Andrew; De Kalb; Daviess; Grundy; Sullivan; BuchananFrom · until · NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
  4. Freeze WarningPhillips; Smith; Jewell; Rooks; Osborne; Mitchell; Valley; Greeley; Nance; Sherman; Howard; Merrick; Polk; Dawson; Buffalo; Hall; Hamilton; York; Gosper; Phelps; Kearney; Adams; Clay; Fillmore; Furnas; Harlan; Franklin; Webster; Nuckolls; Thayeruntil · NWS Hastings NE
  5. Freeze WarningRussell; Lincoln; Barton; Ellsworth; Saline; Rice; McPherson; Reno; KingmanFrom · until · NWS Wichita KS
  6. Freeze WarningMonona; Harrison; Shelby; Pottawattamie; Mills; Montgomery; Fremont; Page; Knox; Cedar; Thurston; Antelope; Pierce; Wayne; Boone; Madison; Stanton; Cuming; Burt; Platte; Colfax; Dodge; Washington; Butler; Saunders; Douglas; Sarpy; Seward; Lancaster; Cass; Otoe; Saline; Jefferson; Gage; Johnson; Nemaha; Pawnee; RichardsonFrom · until · NWS Omaha/Valley NE · drawn over this area
  7. Freeze WarningHarper; EllisFrom · until · NWS Norman OK · drawn over this area
  8. Freeze WarningRepublic; Washington; Marshall; Nemaha; Brown; Cloud; Clay; Riley; Pottawatomie; Jackson; Ottawa; Dickinson; GearyFrom · until · NWS Topeka KS
  9. Freeze WarningYuma County; Kit Carson County; Cheyenne County; Cheyenne; Rawlins; Decatur; Norton; Sherman; Thomas; Sheridan; Graham; Wallace; Logan; Gove; Greeley; Wichita; Dundy; Hitchcock; Red WillowFrom · until · NWS Goodland KS
  10. Freeze WarningCanon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County; Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft; Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft; Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet; Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft; Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft; Crowley County; La Junta Vicinity/Otero County; Eastern Las Animas County; Western Kiowa County; Eastern Kiowa County; Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County; Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County; Springfield Vicinity/Baca CountyFrom · until · NWS Pueblo CO · drawn over this area
  11. Frost AdvisoryMiami; Linn; Leavenworth; Wyandotte; Johnson; Schuyler; Adair; Clinton; Caldwell; Livingston; Linn; Macon; Platte; Clay; Ray; Carroll; Chariton; Randolph; Jackson; Lafayette; Saline; Cass; JohnsonFrom · until · NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
  12. Frost AdvisoryJefferson; Morris; Wabaunsee; Shawnee; Douglas; Lyon; Osage; Franklin; Coffey; AndersonFrom · until · NWS Topeka KS
  13. Frost AdvisoryWoods; Alfalfa; Grant; Kay; Woodward; Major; Garfield; Noble; Roger Mills; Dewey; Custer; Beckham; Washita; Harmon; GreerFrom · until · NWS Norman OK · drawn over this area
  14. Frost AdvisoryMarion; Chase; Harvey; Butler; Greenwood; Woodson; Allen; Sedgwick; Harper; Sumner; Cowley; Elk; Wilson; ChautauquaFrom · until · NWS Wichita KS
  15. Frost AdvisoryWashington; Pawnee; Western Osage; Northeast Osage; Southeast OsageFrom · until · NWS Tulsa OK · drawn over this area

Most urgent first, by the Briefing’s ranking. Checked .

Spotlight: Winter Storm Severity Index

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Winter Storm Severity Index

WPC: “WSSI does not depict official warnings and should always be used in context with official NWS forecasts and warnings.”

  • Winter Weather Area
  • Minor Impacts
  • Moderate Impacts
  • Major Impacts
  • Extreme Impacts

Highest in this area, by day and by cause

Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Snow amount, Days 1–3
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Snow load, Days 1–3
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Ice, Days 1–3
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Blowing snow, Days 1–3
nothing drawn

Each day and cause on the Winter tab, with its own issue time

WPC’s WSSI, overall impact, Days 1–3, valid to , issued . WPC issues each day and cause on its own clock. Not a warning, and not a chance. Data: NOAA/NWS/WPC.

Chance of Moderate impacts or worse, Day 1

WPC: “WSSI does not depict official warnings and should always be used in context with official NWS forecasts and warnings.”

  • 5–10%
  • 10–20%
  • 20–30%
  • 30–40%
  • 40–50%
  • 50–60%
  • 60–70%
  • 70–80%
  • 80–90%
  • 90–95%
  • 95% or more

Each level and day on the Winter tab

WPC’s WSSI-P, the 24 hours to , WPC’s forecast from . Each band runs to the next. Data: NOAA/NWS/WPC.

Chance of at least 4 inches of snow, Day 1

WPC gives no chance of 4 inches of snow or more in this area over the next three days, so Day 1’s 4 inches is shown.

  • Slight: at least 10%
  • Moderate: at least 40%
  • High: at least 70%

Every day and amount on the Winter tab

WPC’s Probabilistic Winter Precipitation Forecast, to , issued . Outlines, as WPC draws them. Data: NOAA/NWS/WPC.

Winter watches, warnings and advisories

  • Freeze Warning 10 9 not yet in effect · until · NWS Amarillo TX, NWS Dodge City KS, NWS Goodland KS, 7 more offices
  • Frost Advisory 5 5 not yet in effect · until · NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO, NWS Norman OK, NWS Topeka KS, 2 more offices

NWS’s winter and cold alerts in force in the area, by event as issued, each counted once, with the offices that issued them and the latest end. Data: NOAA/NWS.

Snow on the ground

NOHRSC snow depth and snow water equivalent use the source’s original pictures and legends, with qualified footprint times. Open the cached source page for availability and retained history. This wall has no snow picture to rotate; missing imagery does not mean no snow.

NOHRSC snow analysis and retained pictures

Data: NOAA/NWS/NOHRSC. Snow analysis, not a measurement at a place.

WPC’s heavy snow and icing discussion

The whole discussion

Issued , for to . WPC’s words, as written. Data: NOAA/NWS/WPC.

SPC Day 1 outlook

  • General Thunderstorms Risk

SPC’s Day 1 categorical outlook, valid to , issued . SPC’s categories, as drawn. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Watches

No tornado or severe thunderstorm watch in force in this area.

SPC’s watches, by number, matched by the counties they list. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Mesoscale discussions

No mesoscale discussion reaches this area.

SPC’s mesoscale discussions whose outline reaches the area. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Storm ingredients

SPC’s hourly mesoanalysis, observed soundings and model guidance for the area, on the Analysis tab with its own clocks.

Open the Analysis tab

Drawn by the Analysis tab’s own renderer. Data: NOAA/SPC, NOAA/NCEP.

Flash-flood risk, Day 1

  • Marginal

WPC’s excessive rainfall outlook, to , issued : a chance of flash flooding, in four categories. Data: NOAA/WPC.

River gauges in flood

No river, coastal or lake gauge in this area is in flood, observed or forecast.

NWS’s gauges at flood stage or above in the area, worst first, each with its forecast hydrograph on Rain & rivers. Data: NOAA/NWPS.

Rain expected and rain that fell

WPC’s rain forecast and MRMS’s radar estimate of the rain that fell, on the Briefing’s map for the area.

Open Rain & rivers

Data: NOAA/WPC, NOAA/NSSL MRMS.

The tropics

NHC’s and JTWC’s storms, their official graphics and the watches and warnings for them. Storm Mode’s own tropical panels arrive with its tropical events.

Open the Tropics page

Data: NOAA/NHC, JTWC.

Radar, winter preset

The Radar page’s winter preset over the area: HRDPS forecast snow with NWS’s warnings on top, loaded by your browser. A forecast, labelled as one there.

Open the radar

Live tiles; the radar keeps no last-good copy.

What changed, last 60 minutes

Nothing has changed in the last 60 minutes.

The products’ own words and times, and what is no longer in force since the last read. Never written by AI.