1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 2:55 AM CST, 11 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 355 AM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 .DISCUSSION... RATHER COMPLEX SCENARIO FOR TODAY AS UPPER LOW DRIFTS EAST OVER THE AREA. CURRENT RADAR INDICATES BROAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION DRIFTING THIS WAY BUT QUESTION REMAINS HOW MUCH OF THIS WILL PERSIST INTO THE FORENOON HOURS. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT APPEARS LIKELY THOUGH AS THE UPPER LOW DRIFTS EAST. ANY BREAKS IN CLOUDS WILL ONLY ADD TO INSTABILITY AND CHC FOR STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. RUCII INDICATES DEEPER MOISTURE SHIFTS EAST OF AREA BY LATE MRNG SETTING STAGE FOR AT LEAST SOME BREAKS IN CLOUDS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. HIGH TEMPS TRICKY AS WELL DEPENDING ON AREAL EXTENT AND PERSISTENCE OF CLOUD COVER. AS UPPER LOW DRIFTS EAST OF AREA LATER TONIGHT...CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION COME TO AN END. LIFTED EARLIER FCST PCPN FROM SUNDAY AFTN INTO MONDAY AS SOMEWHAT DRYER AIR WORKS INTO THE AREA. MAINTAINED PCPN IN LATER PDS OF FCST WITH RIDGE BREAKING DOWN AGAIN AND AREA PRONE TO WNW FLOW TSTMS. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 425 AM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-180930- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 425 AM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER ALL THE AREA TODAY BUT THE CHANCES WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE FROM WEST TO EAST OVER THE AREA TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ON SUNDAY MORNING. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN BEGINNING WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING.
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A cold air funnel was observed by the public and captured on film by a storm spotter. A picture of the funnel was published in the local newspaper.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2006
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5514823.