Extreme Cold/Wind Chill — Brown, Kansas

2022-12-22 · Brown, Kansas

Event narrative

The Kansas mesonet showed wind chills of -25 to -40F for much of the day on December 22nd. That data was available via http://mesonet.k-state.edu/weather/windchill/ .

Wider weather episode

Wind chills dropped into the -25 to -40 degree range during the overnight and early morning hours of December 22nd. Northwest winds of 25 to 45 mph along with air temperatures of zero to -10F will do that. Numerous counties opened various locations to act as warming shelters for vulnerable populations.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1060916. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.