1 high 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 May 16, 6:20 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 720 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 .DISCUSSION...UPDATE WILL UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS AND SKY COVER OVER CENTRAL KS. SPC ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11PM FOR RUSSELL, ELLSWORTH, SALINE, AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. SOUTHERN END OF SQUALL LINE IS PUSHING EAST AT ROUGHLY 40-45 MPH ACROSS ELLIS COUNTY, AND IS KNOCKING ON THE DOORSTEP OF RUSSELL COUNTY. INTENSIFICATION EVIDENT PER RADAR IMAGERY OVER THE LAST FEW VOLUME SCANS, BUT NOTHING LOOKS SEVERE YET. BRUNT OF ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY REMAIN NORTH OF CWA, BUT ISOLATED SEVERE HAIL AND WIND WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING, AS SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER NORTHWEST KS CONTINUES PUSHING EAST. SO FAR 700MB FLOW IS MOSTLY PARALLEL TO SQUALL LINE, BUT IF FLOW BECOMES MORE PERPENDICULAR, DAMAGING WIND THREAT MAY INCREASE. CONTINUED THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS FOCUSED ALONG LEFT OVER OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AFTER MIDNIGHT OVER MAINLY CENTRAL KS. KLEINSASSER --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS DISCUSSION 515 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT THIS EVENING MAY NOT BE SO QUIET IN OUR CENTRAL KS COUNTIES. BAND OF STG/SVR STORMS IN NW KS MOVING EWD. PROFILERS AT GRANADA, HAVILAND AND HILLSBORO SHOWING DECENT SHEAR. WITH 2-3 MORE HOURS OF DAYLIGHT...STORMS MAY HOLD TOGETHER A WHILE. WILL LEAVE 20 POPS FOR CTRL KS COUNTIES...BUT WILL UPDATE HWO PRODUCT TO INDICATE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS THIS EVENING IN CTRL KS. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR... WOLF ------------------------------------------------------------------ 350 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS FOR UPCOMING WEEK FOCUS ON FRONTAL LOCATION AND POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION. FAIRLY QUIET NIGHT EXPECTED TONIGHT...WILL LET WIND ADVISORY EXPIRE EARLY THIS EVENING. FEW STRONG STORMS COULD SKIRT OUR NWRN-MOST COUNTIES LATER TNGT...COULD ALSO SEE FEW ELEVATED SHOWERS/T-STORMS LATE WITH LLJ...WILL CONFINE LOW POPS TNGT TO OUR CTRL KS COUNTIES. MONDAY...FRONT SAGS SE OVER NRN KS...COULD SEE A FEW LATE DAY STORMS ALONG BOUNDARY...SPREADING SE MON NGT WITH POTENTIAL FOR ELEV SHOWERS/ T-STORMS ASSOC WITH LLJ. TUES...ETA A LITTLE FURTHER S WITH FRONT THAN GFS...SUGGESTING BOUNDARY APPROACHING KS/OK BRDR LATE TUE. MODELS SHOW VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS, VEERING WIND PROFILE (THOUGH WEAK LOW-LEVEL WINDSPEEDS) AND FRONTAL CONVERGENCE WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO SCATTERED STRONG/SEVERE T-STORMS LATE TUE ONCE CAP OVERCOME (CAP UNDERDONE IN MODEL FORECASTS). WITH BUILDING UPPER RIDGE IN RESPONSE TO DEEPENING WRN TROUGH WED... SHOULD SEE BOUNDARY RETREAT NORTHWARD, ALONG WITH CHANCES FOR CONVECTION. LOW POPS RETURN TO CTRL KS COUNTIES FOR THU/FRI... SPREADING ELSEWHERE FOR WEEKEND. CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY EXISTS WITH EVOLUTION OF WRN TROUGH AND HOW SHORTWAVES WILL EJECT TO CTRL STATES...NEVERTHELESS MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SUGGEST NEXT SAT-MON MAY BE AN ACTIVE WEATHER PERIOD. WELL SEE..... AS FOR TEMPS...LOW-LEVEL THICKNESS PROGS SUGGEST L-M 90S BY TUE/WED...S OF FRONT...BUT THINK WET GROUND FROM PREVIOUS EVENT MAY KEEP TEMPS A LITTLE BELOW THIS GUIDANCE (AS THE CASE TODAY). WILL BRING MID 80S TO SCTRL KS MON...WITH 85-90 ACROSS MUCH OF FORECAST AREA BY WED. WOLF && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA 62 85 61 83 / 10 10 30 30 HUTCHINSON 62 84 59 82 / 10 10 30 30 NEWTON 62 84 60 82 / 10 10 30 30 ELDORADO 62 84 62 83 / 10 10 30 30 STROTHER FIELD 63 86 63 84 / 10 10 20 30 RUSSELL 59 83 57 79 / 20 20 30 30 GREAT BEND 60 83 58 80 / 20 20 30 30 SALINA 62 83 58 80 / 20 20 30 30 MCPHERSON 62 84 59 81 / 20 20 30 30 COFFEYVILLE 62 83 65 83 / 5 5 10 30 CHANUTE 62 83 64 82 / 10 10 20 30 IOLA 62 83 64 81 / 10 10 20 30 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 520 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-171200- RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE- RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-420 520 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING, MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM GREAT BEND TO MCPHERSON. THERE IS A THREAT OF STRONG WINDS OR HAIL WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID EVENING. LATER AT NIGHT, WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING, THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS ALONG AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN KANSAS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS. A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL BE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS IN THE VICINTY OF A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN CENTRAL KANSAS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/ICT/HWO/HWOICT.HTM PLW
KSZ032-033-048-049-170305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 936 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 209 CANCELLED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 209 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS...RUSSELL, LINCOLN, ELLSWORTH, AND SALINE. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. ADK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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