A prolonged period of extremely dry weather, led to the drought continuing across the region for the month of September 2022. Drought category levels continued to degrade over the area with the US Drought Monitor showing Exceptional Drought (D4) expanding northward and westward across most of south central Kansas.
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The episode as NWS ICT wrote it up.
A prolonged period of extremely dry weather, led to the drought continuing across the region for the month of September 2022. Drought category levels continued to degrade over the area with the US Drought Monitor showing Exceptional Drought (D4) expanding northward and westward across most of south central Kansas. Extreme Drought (D3) along with Severe Drought (D2) also further expanded northward over the area. Areas of southern Kansas continued to report 2 to 3 inches of below normal rainfall.
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 31, 10:29 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Wichita KS 1129 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Friday night) Issued at 337 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 Surface high pressure that was set over eastern Kansas and western Missouri this morning will continue to shift east into the Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley ahead of a shortwave trough set to arrive over eastern Colorado this evening. This trough will linger/slowly drift southeast before pulling east early Friday. At the same time, a ridging across the western CONUS will amplify and a stout mid level low will traverse across western and central Canada. Storms kicking off across western Kansas and Nebraska this afternoon still look to remain west of the area, but kept a silent 14 pop in central KS for the off chance storms linger into central KS. Moisture should be increasing across southern Kansas tomorrow, some models more robust than others. However increased moisture and large scale lift over the area, we could see scattered "junkie" storms popup throughout the day tomorrow. Went ahead and kept slight pops across southern KS throughout the day tomorrow. Lack of shear should keep storms under control with no severe storms expected. Friday chances for storms increase, as a cold front approaches from the northwest as compact shortwave expected to come around the western ridge and into the region. Best chances look across central KS toward evening where strong frontogenesis is expected. There is a variety of solutions as far instability goes, bit there is at least a chance we could see strong to severe storms depending how the shear materializes. .LONG TERM...(Saturday through Wednesday) Issued at 337 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 Most of the weekend should stay dry, except brief chances in southeast on Saturday. Otherwise any speakable weather would be very isolated. However, the low chances of showers and storms seemingly will not end. By mid next week a mid level low will try and organize in the vicinity of the Central Plains/Mid Mississippi Valley regions. As the mid level system lingers somewhat in place.. we will see continued chances of scattered shower and storm activity. At this time meaningful precipitation and severe storms are not expected in the extended. Seasonable temperatures near 90 degrees can be expected. && .AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Thursday night) Issued at 1128 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 Outflow from decaying thunderstorms caused an outflow boundary to push southward into central Kansas, which switched the winds around to the north. South winds will gradually spread back into central Kansas early this morning. Meanwhile VFR conditions will prevail across central and southern Kansas for the next 24hrs. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Wichita-KICT 65 94 67 94 / 0 10 10 10 Hutchinson 63 94 65 94 / 10 10 10 10 Newton 63 93 66 93 / 0 10 10 10 ElDorado 63 92 66 92 / 0 20 10 10 Winfield-KWLD 64 94 67 94 / 10 20 10 10 Russell 66 93 64 95 / 10 10 10 10 Great Bend 65 92 65 94 / 10 10 10 10 Salina 64 93 67 94 / 10 10 10 10 McPherson 63 93 65 93 / 10 10 10 10 Coffeyville 63 94 68 93 / 0 20 10 20 Chanute 62 93 67 93 / 0 10 10 20 Iola 62 92 66 92 / 0 10 10 20 Parsons-KPPF 62 94 67 93 / 0 20 10 20 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...KMB LONG TERM...KMB AVIATION...CDJ
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Wichita KS 423 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-012130- 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- 423 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Central Kansas, South Central Kansas and Southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday A few isolated thunderstorms are possible across the region Thursday afternoon and evening, and then again Friday afternoon through Friday night. Off-and-on chances for isolated hit-or-miss thunderstorms will remain possible during the afternoon and evening hours this weekend through mid next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated tonight. && For a graphical version of this information, see our webpage at: https://weather.gov/crh/ghwo?sid=ict
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
23 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall. Chanute, Kansas only reported 0.41 inches of rainfall for the month, which was 3.69 inches below normal.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) across the southern half of the county, by the middle of the month, due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) rapidly expanded to Exceptional Drought (D4) by the middle of the month, across the southern half of the county, due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) expanded to extreme drought (D3), during the the middle of the month due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) expanded to extreme drought (D3), during the the middle of the month due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) expanded to extreme drought (D3), during the the middle of the month due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) expanded rapidly to Exceptional drought (D4), during the the middle of the month due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) expanded to extreme drought (D3), during the the middle of the month due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) expanded to extreme drought (D3), during the the middle of the month due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) continued across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall. Wichita Eisenhower National Airport recorded only 0.67 inches of rainfall, which is 2.38 inches below normal. This is the fourth month in a row with below normal rainfall.
Extreme drought (D3) continued across the entire county due to continued well below normal rainfall.
Severe drought (D2) rapidly expanded to Extreme drought (D3) by the end of the month, due to well below normal rainfall across the county.
Severe drought (D2) rapidly expanded to Extreme drought (D3) by the end of the month, due to well below normal rainfall across the county.
Severe drought (D2) rapidly expanded to Extreme drought (D3) by the end of the month, due to well below normal rainfall across the county.
Severe drought (D2) rapidly expanded to Extreme drought (D3) by the end of the month, due to well below normal rainfall across the county.
Moderate drought (D1) rapidly expanded to Extreme drought (D3) by the end of the month, due to well below normal rainfall across the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, September 2022
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: 1057661, 1057662, 1057663, 1057664, 1057665, 1057666, 1057667, 1057668, 1057669, 1057670, 1057671, 1057672, 1057673, 1057674, 1057675, 1057676, 1057677, 1057678, 1057679, 1057680, 1057681, 1057682, 1057683.