Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1130 AM CDT SUN JUL 17 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS SOOTH
   CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 11 25 AM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...
POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 MPH WERE ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...MAINLY IN A 40 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM NEAR
EL DORADO WEST ACROSS WICHITA AND WEST TO NEAR PRATT.

ONE REPORT FROM NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF WICHITA HAD .96 OF RAIN IN
THE LAST HOUR WITH ONE OF THE STRONGER STORMS.

THE AREA WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH WITH INDIVIDUAL STORMS
MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.

PERSONS IN GREENWOOD AND ELK COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE
STORMS AS THEY WILL BE MOVING INTO THEIR AREAS BY 12 30 PM.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1200 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL
   IN CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY...

AT 12 00 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS
OF RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED BETWEEN EL DORADO AND
JUST EAST OF AUGUSTA.  THESE STORMS INDICATED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF
RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...THEY COULD ALSO PRODUCE WINDS GUSTS
OF UP TO 50 MPH AS THEY MOVE TO EASTERN BUTLER COUNTY BY 12 45 PM.

PERSONS IN THE EL DORADO AND ESPECIALLY THE LAKE AREA SHOULD BE
VERY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS
WHEN THE STORM APPROACHES.  ANY SUDDEN DOWNBURST OF WIND FROM THIS
STORM WOULD BE HAZARDOUS TO ANY BOATERS ON THE LAKE.

THE STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO WEST GREENWOOD COUNTY BY 1 PM CDT.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1230 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH COPIOUS DOWNPOUR OF RAIN IN BUTLER COUNTY
   OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 12 25 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS
OF RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED FROM EL DORADO EAST TO
THE GREENWOOD COUNTY LINE.  EL DORADO RECEIVED 1.14 INCHES AS THE
STORM MOVED THROUGH THERE.  THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE
EUREKA AREA BY 1 PM.

ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF NEWTON
TO KINGMAN.

OVERALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN KANSAS...SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM
JUST EAST OF MARYSVILLE IN THE NORTHEAST TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PRATT IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  THE AREA WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20
MPH WITH IDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
200 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN NOW IN GREENWOOD
   COUNTY.

AT  1 55 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS
OF RAIN...WERE LOCATED BETWEEN MARFIELD GREEN TO NEAR SEVERY...AND
JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST OF BEAUMONT.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
20 TO 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING TO A MADISON TO TORONTO LINE BY
145 PM.  ANY BOATER ON TORONTO RESERVOIR SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE
APPROACHING STORMS AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN SIGHTED.

ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF PEABODY
TO JUST NORTH OF KINGMAN.  THIS AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WITH THESE STORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN SEDGWICK COUNTY SMALL
STREAMS WILL BE RISING RAPIDLY AND THERE WILL LIKELY BE SOME URBAN
AND LOW LYING FLOODING AS THE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
135 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS STILL ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND
   SOUTHEAST KANSAS>

AT  1 25 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED ACROSS
KANSAS...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS IN GREENWOOD AND NORTH ELK COUNTIES
AND FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
KINGMAN. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINS
WILL POSE A PROBLEM SINCE THE GROUNDS ARE ALREADY SOAKED BY THE
MORNING RAINS.  SMALL STREAMS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS
A GOOD POSSIBILITY ACROSS THE AREA FROM SOUTH RENO ACROSS NORTH
SEDGWICK AND INTO WEST BUTLER COUNTIGES.

OVERALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM
MARYSVILLE IN THE NORTHEAST TO JUST EAST OF PRATT.  MOVEMENT WAS TO
THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
238 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
   AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

AT 228 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED ACROSS
KANSAS...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS IN BUTLER...CHASE AND WOODSON COUNTIES
ALSO HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING IN ELK COUNTY. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE
WEATHER WAS INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINS WILL POSE A PROBLEM SINCE THE
GROUNDS ARE ALREADY SOAKED BY THE MORNING RAINS. SMALL STREAMS AND
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE IN THESE AREA.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS. MOVEMNT FOR ALL PRECIPITATION WAS TO THE EAST AT 15
MILES AN HOUR.
ROSNER