A small complex of multicell thunderstorms moved across portions of South Central and Central Kansas during the evening hours of August the 2nd, 2013. Damaging winds occurred along with hail up to quarter size.
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The episode as NWS ICT wrote it up.
A small complex of multicell thunderstorms moved across portions of South Central and Central Kansas during the evening hours of August the 2nd, 2013. Damaging winds occurred along with hail up to quarter size.
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 Aug 2, 5:21 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 621 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 339 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 TONIGHT: FAIRLY LOW CONFIDENCE ON HOW CONVECTION WILL PLAY OUT THROUGH DAYBREAK SAT. CURRENT THINKING IS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MORNING CONVECTION WILL BE FOCUS FOR ISOLATED/SCATTERED STORMS THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY NEAR CONVERGENCE CAUSED BY STRONGER SOUTHWEST FLOW. GIVEN SURFACE MOISTURE AND RESULTANT SURFACE DEWPOINTS...RATHER IMPRESSIVE INSTABILITY HAS BEEN GENERATED. MAY SEE SOME STRONG/SEVERE STORMS...BUT REMAINS TO BE SEEN HOW ORGANIZED/PERSISTENT IT WILL BE. NOT PARTICULARLY FOND OF ANY OF THE MODEL SOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO CURRENT OBSERVATIONS. CLOSEST MIGHT BE A TONED DOWN GFS. THINK THERE IS A CHANCE FOR STUFF TO REDEVELOP TOWARD DAYBREAK IN BAROCLINIC ZONE...LIKELY OVER EASTERN SECTIONS...BUT COVERAGE NOT EXPECTED TO BE THAT GREAT. WILL KEEP FLOOD WATCH GOING AS IS...BUT THREAT TONIGHT IS EXPECTED TO BE MORE ISOLATED...WITH BRUNT/MAIN RISK ON SAT NIGHT/SUN MORNING. SAT-SUN: SURFACE BOUNDARY FORECAST TO SAG ABOUT HALF WAY INTO FORECAST AREA WITH TEMPERATURES BECOMING VERY TRICKY. COULD EXTENSIVE CLOUDS PERSIST...LEADING TO MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. THIS DIFFERENTIAL HEATING MAY LEAD TO ISOLATED STORMS DURING PEAK HEATING. BELIEVE MORE WIDESPREAD/HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR LATER AS THERE HAS BEEN A STRONG SIGNAL FROM LAST TWO RUNS OF GFS AND LATEST ECMWF FOR PRONOUNCED SHORTWAVE TO TRAVERSE AREA IN RELATIVELY RAPID FLOW LATE SAT NIGHT/SUN MORNING. BELIEVE THIS IN CONCERT WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY AND POOLING MOISTURE WILL GENERATE A SIGNIFICANT MCS LATE SAT NIGHT AND CONTINUE SUN MORNING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KS. DEPENDING ON SURFACE BOUNDARY AND AMOUNT OF CLEARING IN WAKE OF MCS...COULD SEE WIDE RANGE OF TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA ON SUN. MON: BEST CHANCE FOR ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION WILL BE ALONG NORTHEASTERN EDGE OF FORECAST AREA ON MON...MOST LIKELY FROM ELEVATED STORMS AND REMNANT OUTFLOW FROM EARLIER MCS SETTING UP SAID BAROCLINIC ZONE. -HOWERTON .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY) ISSUED AT 339 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 MEDIUM RANGE MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH EACH OTHER AND OVER TIME WITH UPPER FLOW PATTERN THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD. OF COURSE DIFFERENCES ARE EVIDENT IN SURFACE PATTERN AND PRECIPITATION TIMING WHICH WILL PLAY HAVOC ON TIMING/VERIFICATION. DOES APPEAR TO BE SOME CONSISTENT SIGNAL FOR PRECIPITATION ON THU. -HOWERTON && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 606 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 MAIN AVIATION CONCERN WILL BE OVERNIGHT CONVECTIVE TRENDS. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT THE BULK OF THE STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL WAIT UNTIL NEAR OR SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. THIS IS WHEN MOISTURE TRANSPORT IN THE MID LEVELS WILL GET RAMPED UP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KS. ANOTHER SCENARIO WOULD BE FOR THE ACTIVITY APPROACHING THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND AS IT ENCOUNTERS THE BETTER INSTABILITY. REGARDLESS OF WHICH SCENARIO PANS OUT...FEEL CONFIDENT THAT SOUTHERN KS HAS THE BEST SHOT AT STORMS OVERNIGHT INTO SAT MORNING. ALSO FEEL THAT THE EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW AND RICH MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN LOW CIGS OVER CENTRAL KS LATE TONIGHT INTO SAT MORNING. KSLN AND ESPECIALLY KRSL WOULD BE THE SITES MOST IMPACTED. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THESE LOWER CIGS LAST INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. LAWSON && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 73 90 71 86 / 30 10 70 50 HUTCHINSON 70 89 70 86 / 30 20 80 40 NEWTON 71 87 70 82 / 40 20 70 50 ELDORADO 72 88 71 83 / 40 20 70 60 WINFIELD-KWLD 74 90 72 86 / 40 20 50 50 RUSSELL 69 84 68 82 / 30 20 80 40 GREAT BEND 69 87 68 85 / 40 20 80 30 SALINA 71 85 69 81 / 40 20 80 50 MCPHERSON 70 89 69 84 / 30 20 80 50 COFFEYVILLE 75 93 73 85 / 40 20 60 60 CHANUTE 73 90 71 83 / 40 20 60 70 IOLA 72 90 71 82 / 40 30 50 70 PARSONS-KPPF 73 91 72 84 / 40 20 60 60 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR KSZ052-053-069>072- 093>096-098>100. FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR KSZ032-033-047>051-067- 068-083-092. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 728 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-032115- 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- 728 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 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 THE ENTIRE AREA THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST AND TRANSITION INTO A LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING THREAT TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO LATEST FLOOD WATCH FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. AREAL FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR RICE COUNTY AND ALSO NORTHEAST RENO COUNTY...AND RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE COTTONWOOD RIVER. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLOOD WARNING STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SERIOUS FLOODING PROBLEMS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. AT LEAST STRONG STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL BE NEAR 100 ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER EACH AFTERNOON FROM MONDAY TO WEDNESDAY. .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 HOWERTON/LAWSON
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
740 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013
KSZ067-030115-
RENO-
740 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RENO COUNTY...
AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PRESTON...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PRATT
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE FLOODING WARNINGS...SHOULD
THE RISK FOR MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING BECOME MORE IMMINENT.
&&
LAT...LON 3803 9831 3785 9814 3773 9838 3773 9847
3792 9848
TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 234DEG 18KT 3778 9849
ESThe Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:12 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A large tree was knocked down at Smoots Creek Road and Bownlee.
A trained spotter reported the wind gust.
A trained spotter reported wind gusts between 65 and 80 mph.
Just a few nickel to quarter size hail stones fell.
A tree fell on the road at Highway 14 and Centennial.
A trained spotter reported the wind gusts.
Large tree branches were knocked down.
Law enforcement reports large trees down. The KSN weather lab at Marion High School reported a wind gust to 57 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2013
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: 472032, 472034, 472035, 472037, 472038, 472039, 472042, 472045.