Strong southerly winds of 30 to 40 mph over southern Kansas during the early morning hours of the 27th knocked over a light pole at Cherry Street Park in Winfield.
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Strong southerly winds of 30 to 40 mph over southern Kansas during the early morning hours of the 27th knocked over a light pole at Cherry Street Park in Winfield.
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 Mar 26, 10:55 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1155 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010 .AVIATION...06Z TAFS KRSL/KSLN/KHUT/KICT/KCNU LATEST RADAR LOOP WAS SHOWING SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS. STILL CONCERNED THAT SOME SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. AS A RESULT...WE WENT AHEAD AND MENTIONED SOME VCTS IN THE HUT/ICT TAF SITES AFTER 07Z. MEANWHILE...CENTRAL KANSAS WAS STARTING TO SEE MORE SHOWERS DEVELOPING OVER THAT REGION IN RESPONSE TO THE DECENT ISENTROPIC LIFT. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD PERSIST ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT WITH CEILINGS CONTINUING TO LOWER INTO THE IFR CATEGORY DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT AND PERSISTING THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY TOMORROW. ELSEWHERE...CEILINGS SHOULD GENERALLY DROP INTO THE MVFR CATEGORY AFTER 11Z. COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE TIMING STILL LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK WITH THE PREVIOUS FORECAST. COX && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1059 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010/ UPDATE... WE ARE SENDING OUT ANOTHER QUICK UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL KANSAS AND ADJUST TIMING OF POPS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LATEST WATER VAPOR LOOP WAS SHOWING LARGE PRESSURE FALLS TAKING PLACE ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA ALONG WITH WINDS GUSTING OVER 45 MPH. THIS AREA OF PRESSURE FALLS WAS IN ADVANCE OF THE POTENTIAL VORTICITY ANOMALY MOVING THROUGH THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLE. DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS... IT APPEARS LIKE WE SHOULD SEE MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA. POTENTIAL INSTABILITY ALSO LOOKS TO BE QUITE IMPRESSIVE ACCORDING TO THE LATEST NORMAN SOUNDING. AT THIS POINT...IT LOOKS LIKE SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS MAY SEE THE SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 2AM WHILE CENTRAL KANSAS MAY SEE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE NIGHT. COX PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 801 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010/ UPDATE... WE ARE SENDING OUT A QUICK UPDATE TO INTRODUCE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING. LATEST WATER VAPOR LOOP AND GOES PROFILERS WERE SHOWING AROUND 100-110KT JET STREAK MOVING OUT OF THE NEW MEXICO. THIS JET STREAK IN ADDITION TO SOME UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE IS HELPING INDUCE SOME SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A FAIRLY DEEP BOUNDARY EXTENDING THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS FROM NEAR GARDEN CITY TO JUST WEST OF HILL CITY. THE RUC IS ALSO SHOWING GOOD ISENTROPIC ASCENT TAKING PLACE NEAR THE 300KT THETA SURFACE WHICH MEANS THIS ACTIVITY IS FAIRLY ELEVATED. DODGE CITY SOUNDING WAS ALSO SHOWING SOME POTENTIAL INSTABILITY. THIS ACTIVITY MAY CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHEAST INTO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING...BUT DUE TO SUCH A DRY AIR MASS I WOULD NOT EXPECT MUCH MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL. COX PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 646 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010/ AVIATION...00Z TAFS KRSL/KSLN/KHUT/KICT/KCNU A SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER COLORADO WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER PRODUCER THAT WILL AFFECT ALL TAF SITES FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THIS SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL FORM AN UPPER LEVEL CLOSED LOW BY 12Z JUST SOUTH OF ICT COUNTRY AND WILL TRACK ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS. WITH THE APPROACH OF THIS SYSTEM...BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL BE OBSERVED OVERNIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. EXPECT PRECIPITATION AND MVFR CIGS TO BEGIN ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AROUND 11Z AND SPREAD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS BY 13Z. AS THE LOW MOVES ACROSS THE AREA THE WINDS WILL DIE DOWN SHORTLY...BUT WITH THE WIND SHIFT FROM THE SSE TO THE NORTH THEY WILL INCREASE DUE TO THE STRENGTHENING OF THE CYCLOGENESIS. THE CNU TAF WILL BE NOT BE AFFECTED UNTIL THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON SATURDAY WITH PRECIPITATION...MVFR CIGS...AND STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS. DUNTEN PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 321 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010/ DISCUSSION... THIS EVENING: FIRST ISSUE TO BE DEALT WITH IS THE RED FLAG WARNING CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR WRN HALF OF CNTRL KS TIL 7 PM. S/SE WINDS SHOULD QUICKLY DIMINISH TO 15-25MPH WHICH WOULD ENABLE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER TO LIKEWISE QUICKLY DROP INTO "HIGH" CATEGORY. THE 2ND ISSUE IS THE WIND ADVISORY CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME CNTRL KS COUNTIES WHERE THE RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT. WITH S/SE WINDS SUSTAINED AT 30-35MPH AT KHUT A SWD EXTENSION TO INCLUDE RENO...KINGMAN & HARPER COUNTIES WAS CONSIDERED. HOWEVER...A CALL TO KHUT ASOS INDICATES THAT WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO DIMINISH...AS SUCH WILL CHECK SWING ON THE SWD EXTENSION OF THE WIND ADVISORY & LET THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE EXPIRE ON SCHEDULE AT 7 PM. LATER TONIGHT: A RAINY NGT AWAITS KICT COUNTRY AS INTENSE CYCLOGENESIS OCCURS OVER THE TX/OK PANHANDLES THIS EVENING. AS THE CREATURE FEATURE MOVES E OVER THE OK/KS BORDER DEEP-LAYER MOIST ASCENT WILL GREATLY INCREASE. MAGNITUDE OF THE MID-UPR DIFFLUENCE MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO INDUCE EMBEDDED TSRA ACROSS THE REGION. A FAIRLY DRY LWR AIRMASS (THRU ~7,000FT THRU MID-NGT) WOULD TRANSLATE INTO A LATE ARRIVAL OF RA/EMBEDDED TSRA ~3-5AM CDT. SUFFICIENT CONFIDENCE EXISTS TO PRESS HARD ON THE POP THROTTLE OVER CNTRL KS WHERE PROBABILITIES WILL QUICKLY INCREASE TO 90-100% BY EARLY SAT MORNING WITH PROBABILITIES QUICKLY INCREASING OVER MOST OF SC KS TO 70-80%. SAT & SAT NGT: MOST OF KICT COUNTRY IS IN FOR A SOGGY SAT & SAT NGT AS THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED INTENSE CYCLONE CONTINUES IT'S EWD TREK FROM THE KS/OK BORDER TO ALONG THE MO/AR BORDER. ANY CHANCES FOR EMBEDDED TSRA TO BE CONFINED TO PRIMARILY SE KS SAT & PERHAPS EARLY SAT EVENING. AS THE CYCLONE MOVES E ACROSS SRN MO/NRN AR SAT EVENING NLY WINDS WILL INCREASE OVER ALL AREAS BUT REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. SUN & SUNDAY NGT: THE CYCLONE SHOULD TRANSLATE INTO AN OPEN WAVE AS IT ACCELERATES E OVER MID MS VALLEY. AS SUCH RA WILL WILL END OVER SE KS SUN MORNING WITH CLEARING SKIES THEREAFTER AS LARGE STRONG MID-UPR HIGH PRESSURE SPREADS E ACROSS THE ROCKIES. NEXT WEEK: PERSISTENT & GRADUALLY STRENGTHENING SFC TROFFING OVER THE WRN PLAINS TO INSURE WARM BREEZY WEATHER FOR MOST AREAS. TSRA POTENTIAL MINIMAL DURING THE WORK-WEEK & WILL BE LIMITED TO FRI AFTERNOON AS CYCLOGENESIS INCREASES MARKEDLY OVER THE NM/TX BORDER. NEXT FRI NGT & SAT COULD PROVE VOLATILE FOR KICT COUNTRY AS THE CYCLONE INTENSIFIES EVEN FURTHER AS IT DRIFTS NE OVER KS WHERE IT MAY CUT-OFF NEXT SAT AS IT ENCOUNTERS STRONG RESISTENCE FROM VERY STRONG RIDGE AXIS SITUATED OVER THE ATLANTIC COAST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 45 52 41 60 / 60 80 40 0 HUTCHINSON 44 50 40 60 / 70 80 30 0 NEWTON 45 51 40 59 / 70 80 40 0 ELDORADO 45 54 41 59 / 60 80 50 0 WINFIELD-KWLD 46 56 42 59 / 40 70 40 0 RUSSELL 41 47 37 61 / 90 100 30 0 GREAT BEND 42 48 38 61 / 90 90 30 0 SALINA 43 48 39 60 / 80 90 40 0 MCPHERSON 44 49 40 60 / 80 80 40 0 COFFEYVILLE 46 60 42 57 / 20 70 60 10 CHANUTE 46 58 41 56 / 40 70 60 10 IOLA 45 57 41 55 / 40 80 60 10 PARSONS-KPPF 46 59 42 56 / 30 70 60 10 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1107 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-271500- 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- 1107 PM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK. THIS WARM DRY AIR WILL COMBINE WITH STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS TOO CREATE VERY HIGH TO POTENTIALLY EXTREME FIRE DANGER LEVELS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED/CJ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong southerly winds of 30 to 40 mph across southern Kansas during the early morning hours of the 27th knocked over a light pole at Cherry Street Park in Winfield. Information courtesy of the Winfield Daily Courier.
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