Numerous strong to severe thunderstorms affected portions of south-central, east-central and southeast Kansas during the late afternoon and evening hours on the 24th, as a cold front approached from the northwest. Hail up to quarter size, winds to 65 mph and locally heavy rainfall were the main weather risks.
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Numerous strong to severe thunderstorms affected portions of south-central, east-central and southeast Kansas during the late afternoon and evening hours on the 24th, as a cold front approached from the northwest. Hail up to quarter size, winds to 65 mph and locally heavy rainfall were the main weather risks. The locally heavy rainfall did produce some localized minor flooding of typical flood-prone and poor drainage areas across portions of Labette, Chase, Allen, Butler and Woodson counties.
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 24, 2:13 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 313 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST CONCERNS WILL BE THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES (POSSIBLE SEVERE) THIS EVENING...AND THEN SLIGHT CHANCES AFTER THIS FOR SUN-TUE. THIS EVENING-TONIGHT: FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY STRETCHES FROM MKC/EMP TO JUST NORTH OF ICT TO DDC WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS JUST SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY WITH MLCAPE VALUES OF 4000 J/KG. EXPECT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KS ALONG THIS BOUNDARY ANYTIME THIS AFTERNOON SO...WITH MULTICELL STORMS THE MAIN STORM MODE AS BULK SHEAR IS ONLY AROUND 20 KTS. EVEN WITH THE MEAGER SHEAR...VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS COULD LEAD TO STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS...AS INVERTED-V FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST A DAMAGING WIND THREAT...OR POSSIBLY SOME QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN THE STRONGEST UPDRAFTS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING BUT WANE SOME AFTER SUNSET...AS MAX HEATING ENDS. BUT ELEVATED INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW THE CONVECTION TO CONTINUE FOR A GOOD PORTION OF THE NIGHT. BIGGEST THREAT WILL EVENTUALLY SHIFT TO MORE OF A HEAVY RAINFALL/LOCALIZED FLOODING THREAT...AS LACK OF MUCH FORWARD PROGRESSION TO THE CONVECTION AND SLOW MOVING STORMS WILL LEAD TO TRAINING STORMS AND POSSIBLE BACKBUILDING OF THE CONVECTION. NOT EXPECTING AN MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM (MCS)TO DEVELOP GIVEN SLOW PROPAGATION...BUT MORE OF A FESTERING LINE OF STORMS. SUN-MON: WILL CERTAINLY SEE CONVECTION FESTER INTO THE MORNING HOURS ON SUN...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SRN KS...JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WHICH WILL BECOME QUASI-STATIONARY ACROSS NRN OK. SO WILL KEEP A SOLID CHANCE POP GOING FOR THE DAYTIME HOURS ON SUN. NOT TOO CERTAIN IN HOW SUN NIGHT INTO MON WILL PLAY OUT AS REMNANTS FROM TD BONNIE MOVE INTO ARK AND POSSIBLY ERN OK. CONVERGENCE AND INCREASED TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL PROBABLY WARRANT AT LEAST A LOW POP FOR THIS TIME FRAME...WITH THE BEST CHANCE IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON MON IN SOUTHEAST KS...WHERE CAPPING INVERSION WILL BE THE WEAKEST. TUE-WED: SOME UNCERTAINLY ON HOW THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WILL PLAY OUT. WITH POSSIBLE TROPICAL MOISTURE STILL LAYING AROUND ACROSS THE ERN HALF OF KS INTO MO. NOT MUCH ON THE WAY OF CONVERGENCE TO GENERATE ANY KIND OF ORGANIZED CONVECTION CHANCES...BUT AFTERNOON HEATING WILL PROBABLY BE ENOUGH FOR SOME DIURNAL SHOWER/STORM CHANCE ALONG OR EAST OF THE FLINT HILLS WHERE BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE LOCATED...SO WILL KEEP A LOW POP GOING FOR NOW. BUT CONFIDENCE IN THIS PLAYING OUT IS LOW...GIVEN MORE RAPID PROGRESSION OF TD BONNIE REMNANTS TO THE NORTH AND NW. REST OF THE EXTENDED: MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SEEM TO BE COMING AROUND TO THE CONCLUSION OF RETROGRADING THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BACK INTO THE PLAINS FOR THE END OF THE WEEK INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL MEAN WARMER TEMPS RETURN AND FAIR CONDITIONS FOR THE REGION FOR THE END OF THE WEEK...AS THIS SLOWER SOLUTION WILL KEEP ANY RELEVANT WEATHER CONCERNS WELL NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA. KETCHAM .AVIATION...18Z TAFS KRSL/KSLN/KHUT/KICT/KCNU NO DOUBT MAJOR CONCERN IS +TSRA THAT'LL BREAK OUT OVER MUCH OF KS THIS AFTERNOON & TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT...DRAPED IN NE-SW MANNER ACROSS CNTRL KS AT 17Z...CONTINUE TO SAG SE TOWARD SC KS. WITH 91 OCTANE FUEL ENTRNCHED OVER MOST AREAS...TSRA DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT WILL NO DOUBT PRODUCE ++RA THAT WILL LIKELY CAUSE LOCALIZED IFR CIGS & VSBYS. AT 24/17Z 2 AREAS OF +TSRA HAD BROKEN OUT ALONG THE COLD FRONT: ONE FROM THE TX PANHANDLE TO EXTREME NW OK AND THE THE 2ND FROM NC KS TO FAR SE NEBRASKA. THE TSRA OCCURRING OVER THE TX PANHANDLE & NW OK HAS BEEN MORE EXPLOSIVE AS IT HAS OCCURRED IN REGION OF STRONGER LWR-DECK CONVERGENCE. THE SE PROGRESS OF THE FRONT WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY FOR WITH A MODEST SW MID-LVL FLOW PREVAILING OVER THE AREA ECHO-TRAINING IS LIKELY. TRANSLATION IS THAT THE POTENTIAL CERTAINLY EXISTS FOR MANY AREAS (ESPECIALLY KICT...KHUT & KCNU) TO EXPERIENCE PROLONGED PERIODS OF +TSRA FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR NOW HAVE JUST ASSIGNED "VCTS" TO KICT & KHUT AS SHORT-TERM MODEL SOUNDINGS ARE HAVING DIFFICULT TIME PIN-POINTING ARRIVAL TIMES OF THE +TSRA. UPDATES WILL CERTAINLY BE ISSUED AS SOON AS THE LOCATIONS & ARRIVAL TIMES OF THE TSRA COME INTO BETTER FOCUS. ~ES && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 69 89 71 91 / 60 40 30 20 HUTCHINSON 66 88 69 90 / 50 40 30 20 NEWTON 66 88 70 90 / 60 40 20 20 ELDORADO 69 89 69 90 / 60 40 30 20 WINFIELD-KWLD 71 91 71 91 / 50 40 30 20 RUSSELL 66 86 67 88 / 30 20 20 20 GREAT BEND 66 88 68 89 / 40 30 30 20 SALINA 70 88 69 89 / 40 20 20 20 MCPHERSON 69 88 69 89 / 50 30 20 20 COFFEYVILLE 76 91 71 90 / 50 40 30 20 CHANUTE 72 89 69 89 / 60 40 20 20 IOLA 71 89 69 89 / 60 40 20 20 PARSONS-KPPF 74 90 70 90 / 50 40 20 20 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR KSZ070>072-094>096-098>100. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 359 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-252100- 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- 359 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN FROM 105 TO 110 INTO EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH THE HIGHEST INDICES ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FOR DETAILS. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A COTTONWOOD FALLS TO HUTCHINSON LINE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED FROM SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA AS THE STORMS MAKE SLOW PROGRESS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST...POSSIBLY TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS MORE THAN ONCE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. A FEW STRONG STORMS AND SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY IN THE AFTERNOON...ACROSS MAINLY SOUTHEAST KANSAS FROM MONDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THOUGH A FEW STRONG STORMS AND SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. HEAT INDICES WILL AGAIN CLIMB TO BETWEEN 100 AND 105 ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS...WITH THE HIGHEST HEAT INDICES EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50...OR SOUTH OF A COTTONWOOD FALLS TO HUTCHINSON LINE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KETCHAM
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 350 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 KSZ091-242115- HARPER- 350 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HARPER COUNTY... AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALDRON...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANTHONY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BILLINGS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 418 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 KSZ091-242145- HARPER- 418 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HARPER COUNTY... AT 415 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HARPER...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANTHONY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BILLINGS
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Winds estimated at 60 mph carried a sheet metal shed about 25 to 50 yards, and also downed a 4 inch diameter tree limb.
Occurred at the intersection of 1st Street and Oliver.
Winds to 60 mph were estimated by the public.
Winds were estimated at 60 to 65 mph associated with a thunderstorm's outflow boundary.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2010
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: 244856, 244859, 244865, 244870, 244872, 244874.