Showers and thunderstorms developed on an outflow boundary in Barton County producing two brief, landspout tornadoes.
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Showers and thunderstorms developed on an outflow boundary in Barton County producing two brief, landspout tornadoes.
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 Jul 8, 1:46 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 246 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 .DISCUSSION... MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS WILL DEAL WITH HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS FOR TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...FOLLOWED BY ADDITIONAL PRECIP CHANCES FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. TONIGHT LATEST SATELLITE WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A UPPER LEVEL WAVE OVER COLORADO MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST...WITH A SOUTHERLY CONNECTION TO A LONG AIRSTREAM OF JUICY AIR INTO SOUTHERN TEXAS. LOCAL 12Z SOUNDINGS INDICATED RESPECTABLE PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AND SKINNY CAPE PROFILES ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN KANSAS...WHICH SUGGESTS THAT DECENT WARM CLOUD DEPTHS RESIDE ACROSS AREA. THIS TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT WOULD SUPPORT EFFICIENT RAINFALL PRODUCTION AND LOWER RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER...BUT STILL CANNOT RULE OUT A FEW STRONG STORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING OVER LOCATIONS THAT WITNESS GOOD HEATING. MEANWHILE...MODELS SHOW THE 850MB FRONT STALLING OUT ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS FOR LATE TONIGHT WITH PERSISTENT TRANSPORT OF MOISTURE INTO THAT BOUNDARY...AND INFLUENCES FROM RIGHT REAR JET ENHANCING THE SYNOPTIC LIFT NEAR THIS BOUNDARY. AS A RESULT...WE WILL MENTION HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS SINCE THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE OUT PER TIMING OF UPPER WAVE ON SATELLITE WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. WED-FRI THE STALLED 850MB FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS WILL BE THE FOCUS AREA FOR LINGERING SHOWERS AND STORMS...WITH HEAVY RAINFALL STILL POSSIBLE DUE TO SOME BACK BUILDING AND TRAINING EFFECTS WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. WE COULD SEE SOME PRECIP ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS INTO THURSDAY BUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOOKS TO LOSE ITS IDENTITY FOR THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL HEAT UP FOR FRIDAY BUT WET GROUND SOILS SHOULD KEEP DAYTIME HIGHS A TAD LOWER THEN FULL POTENTIAL...HOWEVER THIS WILL LEAD TO HIGHER HUMIDITY LEVELS. EXTENDED: SAT-TUE GFS ENSEMBLE TRENDS/ECMWF TRENDS SUGGEST THAT THE SOUTHERN CANADA SYSTEM WILL BECOME DEEPER FOR THIS WEEKEND...WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE A MORE SOUTHERLY PUSH ON THE COLD FRONT. THE MORE SOUTHERLY POSITION WOULD MOVE THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO KANSAS...AND ITS POSSIBLE THAT THE FRONT COULD STALL OUT OVER THE REGION AS WESTERLY MID-UPPER LEVEL FLOW PARALLELS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE COMBINATION OF RICH GULF MOISTURE POOLING NEAR THE FRONT AND MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SHOWING A WEAK UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE MOVING INTO AREA COULD KEEP THE WEATHER UNSETTLED...THEREFORE WE INTRODUCED SOME SMALL CHANCE POPS FOR THE WEEKEND. ITS CONCEIVABLE THAT LATER SHIFTS MIGHT HAVE TO EXTEND PRECIP CHANCES INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...AS WESTERLY FLOW COULD USHER IN ADDITIONAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL IMPULSES. JAKUB .AVIATION... WILL KEEP PRECIPITATION GOING FOR A FEW MORE HOURS AT KICT/KCNU...BUT SUSPECT THERE MAY BE SOME WANING IN AREAL COVERAGE DURING THE AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION SHOULD INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING/OVERNIGHT AT KICT/KCNU/KHUT...WITH SMALLER CHANCES AT KSLN...AND TOO LOW TO MENTION AT KSLN. CEILINGS WILL LIKELY DECR IN TROPICAL RAINFALL TONIGHT...WITH MARGINAL VISUAL FLIGHT RULES FORECAST AT LOCATIONS WITH PRECIPITATION. -HOWERTON && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 68 86 68 88 / 80 30 10 20 HUTCHINSON 67 86 68 90 / 60 10 10 10 NEWTON 67 86 67 88 / 70 20 10 10 ELDORADO 68 85 68 88 / 80 20 10 20 WINFIELD-KWLD 68 86 69 88 / 80 40 20 20 RUSSELL 64 88 66 91 / 20 10 10 10 GREAT BEND 65 88 66 89 / 30 10 10 10 SALINA 66 87 68 89 / 40 10 10 10 MCPHERSON 67 86 68 89 / 60 10 10 10 COFFEYVILLE 68 84 69 87 / 80 70 20 20 CHANUTE 68 84 68 86 / 80 40 20 20 IOLA 67 84 68 86 / 80 30 10 20 PARSONS-KPPF 68 84 68 87 / 80 60 20 20 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 342 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-092045- 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- 342 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN KANSAS TONIGHT AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES SLOWLY SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG THIS EVENING...MAINLY FOR LOCATIONS EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE. THE MAIN HAZARD FROM TONIGHTS ACTIVITY WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH A JUICY AIRMASS OVER THE AREA LEADING TO HIGH RAINFALL RATES. SOME OF THE STORMS AND SHOWERS COULD TRAIN OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS...THUS CAUSING SOME MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PERSIST INTO THURSDAY ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS...HOWEVER STRONG OR SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TO OCCUR WITH THIS ACTIVITY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY ACROSS THE AREA...AS ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY SINKS SOUTHWARD INTO KANSAS...A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...HEAT INDICES AROUND 100 DEGREES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA...FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP JMC/CJ
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:24 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A brief touch down of a landspout tornado occurred in an open field.
A rope type landspout tornado was reported in an open field.
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