1 tornado, 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 Jan 28, 10:36 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1036 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2006 .UPDATE... WILL UPDATE TO KEEP UP WITH CURRENT TRENDS. CLEARING LINE HAS BEEN PROGRESSING PRETTY QUICKLY EAST OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS. SO WILL UPDATE CLOUD GRIDS TO KEEP UP WITH TREND. ALSO INCREASED DEWPOINTS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SE KS TO AGAIN KEEP UP WITH CURRENT DEWPOINT READINGS OVER REGION. DECREASED RAIN CHANCES...ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN AREAS...AS OUR ATTENTION NOW TURNS TO POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT ALONG TROUGH/DRY LINE THAT IS CURRENTLY SITUATED FROM JUST WEST OF PRATT TO NEAR RSL. THE MAIN FACTOR WITH REGARDS TO STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE HOW MUCH CLEARING CAN TAKE PLACE AHEAD OF THIS SURFACE FEATURE. DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 50S SURE WONT INHIBIT STORM DEVELOPMENT. RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION FOR INITIATION WOULD BE JUST EAST OF I-135. AGAIN...THIS WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDANT ON HOW UNSTABLE WE CAN GET JUST AHEAD OF TROUGH/DRYLINE. IF STORMS DO DEVELOP THERE IS ENOUGH DEEP LAYER SHEAR TO SUPPORT SOME STRONG TO EVEN POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS. FEEL PREVIOUS HWO IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK. SO WILL JUST UPDATE TO TAKE MORNING WORDING OUT. LAWSON && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 314 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2006/ DISCUSSION... FORECAST CONCERN... PRECIP/CONVECTIVE TRENDS TODAY... UPPER TROF OVER COLORADO/NEW MEXICO WILL CONTINUE TO SHARPEN/DEEPEN AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS TODAY...TAKING ON A NEGATIVE TILT AS IT MOVES FROM OKLAHOMA INTO THE OZARKS THIS EVENING/TONIGHT. THE GFS AND NAM CONTINUE TO SUGGEST WEAK/MODEST ELEVATED INSTABILITY WILL EXIST ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL/SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING WITH MOST UNSTABLE CAPES IN THE 500-1000 J/KG RANGE. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS CONVECTION INTO MIDDAY WITHIN REGION OF LARGER SCALE LIFT AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER TROF...WITH MARGINAL RISK FOR HAIL. EXTENSIVE LOW CEILINGS WILL PLAGUE MUCH OF THE AREA UNTIL THE MID LEVEL DRY SLOT AND VEERING LOW LEVEL FLOW NEAR APPROACHING SURFACE FRONT ALLOW FOR SCOURING/PARTIAL CLEARING OF CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS AND THE FLINT HILLS. THIS COULD ALLOW FOR NARROW WINDOW OF GREATER DESTABILIZATION TO OCCUR...FOR AREAS ALONG/EAST OF THE TURNPIKE INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON...WHERE SURFACE DEWPOINTS ARE LIKELY TO BE AROUND 50F. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT A MARGINAL SEVERE HAIL AND WIND RISK FOR MAINLY SOUTHEAST KANSAS...AS THIS REGION WILL BE SITUATED NEAR FAVORABLE LIFT REGION FROM COUPLED/SPLIT UPPER JET SEGMENTS TOWARD 00Z. MADE A SLIGHT UP TWEAK TO MAX TEMPERATURES TODAY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS...WHERE TRANSIENT ZONE OF DEEPER MIXING/WARMING MAY RESULT NEAR FRONTAL PASSAGE WHERE PARTIAL CLEARING WILL OCCUR. THIS COULD ALLOW FOR BRIEF BOOST TO TEMPS BEFORE FALLING OFF IN THE MEAN LOW LEVEL COLD ADVECTION REGIME TOWARD EVENING. FOR SUNDAY...ANOTHER UPPER TROF WILL FOLLOW QUICKLY ON HEELS OF FIRST WAVE...DIVING SOUTHEAST FROM THE NORTHERN ROCKIES ACROSS THE NORTHERN/CENTRAL PLAINS AND MIDWEST. AS MENTIONED YESTERDAY IT LOOKS LIKE MUCH OF THE MOISTURE WILL BE SWEPT EAST BEFORE THIS SYSTEM ARRIVES...SO EXPECT MAINLY A PERIOD OF TRANSIENT CLOUDS AND SPRINKLES AT BEST...SO WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY FOR NOW. DRY AND RELATIVELY MILD WEATHER INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY...WITH TRANSIENT AND RATHER FLAT UPPER RIDGE MOVING THROUGH THE PLAINS. A WEAK TROF TO THEN MOVE THROUGH FOR MID-WEEK...THOUGH TAP OF MOISTURE LOOKS TO OCCUR LATE/EAST OF THE AREA...SO DRY FORECAST AS WELL FOR NOW. DARMOFAL && PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 61 34 56 27 / 60 10 10 10 HUTCHINSON 60 32 55 26 / 50 10 10 10 NEWTON 59 35 55 27 / 60 10 10 10 ELDORADO 61 36 56 28 / 70 20 10 10 WINFIELD-KWLD 64 35 58 28 / 80 10 10 10 RUSSELL 56 29 52 23 / 40 10 10 10 GREAT BEND 57 29 53 24 / 40 5 10 10 SALINA 60 34 54 26 / 50 10 10 10 MCPHERSON 60 33 54 26 / 50 10 10 10 COFFEYVILLE 62 38 58 30 / 90 30 10 10 CHANUTE 60 38 56 29 / 90 30 10 10 IOLA 59 38 56 29 / 90 30 10 10 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1044 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2006 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-291200- 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- 1044 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A SALINA TO WICHITA TO WELLINGTON LINE. A FEW STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY FOR HAIL UP TO NICKEL OR QUARTER SIZE AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON TO THE EAST OF A SALINA TO WICHITA TO WELLINGTON LINE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED/LAWSON
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 303 PM CST SAT JAN 28 2006 KSZ051-052-282130- MARION-MCPHERSON- 303 PM CST SAT JAN 28 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR MARION AND MCPHERSON COUNTIES... AT 300 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CANTON...OR 14 MILES EAST OF MCPHERSON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DIME SIZED HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ES
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:17 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A landspout tornado touched down just northeast of Newton, blowing windows out of cars at an auto dealership, and downing light poles and large tree limbs.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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