1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 27, 2:20 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 320 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 PRELIM NUMBERS... FCSTID = 19 ICT 72 97 70 85 / 10 10 50 50 HUT 70 98 68 84 / 10 10 50 50 EWK 71 98 69 84 / 10 10 50 50 EQA 71 97 70 85 / 20 10 50 50 WLD 72 97 71 85 / 20 10 50 60 RSL 68 98 65 82 / 10 30 40 20 GBD 69 98 66 83 / 10 20 50 30 SLN 71 99 66 83 / 10 20 50 30 MPR 70 98 68 84 / 10 10 50 50 CFV 72 97 71 85 / 20 10 50 60 CNU 71 97 70 85 / 20 10 50 50 K88 71 97 70 85 / 20 10 50 50 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 245 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 BIG STORY IS THE EXPECTED COOLDOWN FOR HOLIDAY WEEKEND, ALONG WITH DECENT CHANCE OF WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THURS NIGHT-SAT. WEAK WAVE OVER ERN/CTRL KS MAY PRODUCE FEW EVNG SHWRS...MAINLY IN SE KS. WILL MONITOR TRENDS DURING AFTERNOON...BUT CURRENTLY PLAN LOW POPS FOR FAR SRN/ERN COUNTIES IN FORECAST AREA...DRY ELSEWHERE. BIG CHANGES FOR FRI-MON. WATER VAPOR LOOP TELLS THE STORY...WITH LARGE VORTEX OVER NE PACIFIC...WILL DEVELOP RIDGING OVER WRN CANADA...AND REINFORCE TROUGH OVER ERN CANADA. MODELS DEVELOP DECENT HIGH PRESSURE OVER MT...WITH PUSH OF COOL AIR SOUTHWARD TO CTRL PLAINS. MODELS SIMILAR IN SHOWING COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS CTRL/SRN KS THURS NIGHT OR FRIDAY. SO CONFIDENCE FAIRLY HIGH THAT THE COOLER AIR WILL MAKE IT TO OUR FORECAST AREA. WAVES IN WEAK SRN STREAM EXPECTED TO SET UP OVERRUNNING PATTERN ACROSS SRN KS/NRN OK JUST BEHIND SURFACE FRONT. THIS SHOULD FAVOR DECENT AREA OF PRECIPITATION FRI/SAT. BEST CHANCE WILL BE IN SRN KS BY FRI...WITH CHANCES LOWER FURTHER NORTH. AS FOR TEMPS...I DONT BUY THE LOWER TEMPS IN MOS GUIDANCE FOR TOMORROW. LOW-LEVEL THICKNESS FIELDS SUPPORT AT LEAST UPR 90S. COULD BE SOME COMPRESSIONAL WARMING WITH SW WINDS JUST AHEAD OF SURFACE FRONT. HIGHS WILL DEPEND ON CLOUD COVER...CURRENTLY ANTICIPATE ENOUGH SUN FOR HIGHS TO AT LEAST REACH UPR 90S. AS FOR FRIDAY/SATURDAY...VERY DIFFICULT...IF WE HAVE WIDESPREAD CLOUDS AND SOME PCPN, COULD BE MID 70S (PRETTY CLOSE TO RECORD MIN MAXES, WHICH ARE IN LOWER 70S IN SRN KS)...WITH ENOUGH SUN WED BE 85-90 FRI/ABOVE 80 SAT. ANTICIPATE BAND OF OVERRUNNING CLOUDS/PCPN ACROSS SRN HALF OF KS N OF COLD FRONT. FOR THIS PACKAGE, WILL GO WITH L/M 80S FRI...M/U 70S SAT...WHICH IS CLOSE TO SURROUNDING OFFICES. MORE EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS/PCPN COULD LEAD TO LOWER HIGH TEMPS THAN FOST...NEXT SHIFT NEEDS TO CONSIDER THIS WITH NEXT FULL MODEL RUN. WILL DRY THINGS OUT SUN/MON...LOOKS LIKE GREAT HOLIDAY WEATHER-WISE WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. WILL TRY TO GET PRELIM NUMBERS OUT BEFORE 330 PM... WOLF .ICT... KS...NONE.
KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-281030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 542 AM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THE COVERAGE OF ANY STORMS THAT FORM IS EXPECTED TO BE ISOLATED. HOWEVER, THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF BRIEFLY PULSING UP TO SEVERE LEVELS, WITH DAMAGING MICROBURST WINDS AS THE MAIN THREAT. HEAT INDICES OF AROUND 100 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN 2 PM AND 7 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS EARLY AS THURSDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE FRONT APPEARS TO BE RELATIVELY STRONG, SO SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT, DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/ICT/HWO/HWOICT.HTM JMC
KSZ072-280424- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1121 AM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 ...COUNTY WIDE BURN BAN FOR ALLEN COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2ND... DRY WEATHER CONDITIONS CONTINUE AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THEREFORE, THE COUNTY-WIDE BURN BAN FOR ALLEN COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2ND. EVERYONE IS REMINDED THAT OUTSIDE BURNING WITHIN ALLEN COUNTY IS PROHIBITED. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE BURN BAN, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FIRE CHIEF. CHANCE
KSZ067-280426- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1124 AM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 ...COUNTY WIDE BURN BAN FOR RENO COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3RD... DRY WEATHER CONDITIONS CONTINUE AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THEREFORE, THE COUNTY-WIDE BURN BAN FOR RENO COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3RD. EVERYONE IS REMINDED THAT OUTSIDE BURNING WITHIN RENO COUNTY IS PROHIBITED. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE BURN BAN, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FIRE CHIEF. CHANCE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
1244 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM SYLVAN GROVE KS 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/26/03 LINCOLN REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER
0550 PM PAWNEE ROCK KS 65 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/26/03 BARTON REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER
CHThe Tulsa radar (KINX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:58 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor damage to trees. Four inch diameter limbs were downed across the community.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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