KSStorm Info

03/03/2025

[KSStorm Briefing] Time to get started for the Storm Season! A busy few days coming up, details:

[KSStorm Briefing] Strong Winds and Precipitation Expected starting tonight.

03/03/2025

Welcome to severe weather season and Severe Weather Preparedness Week. Today's task: check y our go bag for expired stuff. A look back at last year:

The 2024 severe weather season was more representative of a typical severe weather season in Kansas, with activity mainly centered in the March through May window. The main reason for this was a quick transition from El Niño into a neutral phase of the ENSO, which led to a more…

02/25/2025

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02/17/2025

[KSStormInfo Outlook] While the snow tonight through tomorrow night will impact travel, the more dangerous condition this week will be the wind chills. Once we go below -10 wind chills, we're not back above that for nearly 3 days. Coldest will be tomorrow night.

Major winter storm to bring heavy snow and dangerously cold temperatures statewide.

02/12/2025

Starting to accumulate in Oakley. This is after 5 or so minutes inside. I'm seeing tracks on the concrete and occasional blowing now.

02/11/2025

Headed to Northwest Kansas, will be streaming snow video for the evening newscast tonight and for the a.m. newscasts tomorrow. Stream will be up later in the evening. Look for it at KSstorm.tv or twitch.com/ksstorminfo

02/10/2025

[KSStorm Info Outlook] Heavy snowfall and hazardous travel conditions expected across Kansas from tomorrow evening through Wednesday.

Heavy snowfall and hazardous travel conditions expected across Kansas from tomorrow evening through Wednesday.

09/21/2024

Severe storms in Saline County 7pm 9-20-24 Nate Willard

05/25/2024

Newest SPC Outlook is posted, little meaningful change, though the Moderate (4/5) area was pushed a bit north. TBH I'm having a hard time with the disconnect between SPC and the local offices on this one. SPC is tempering a high-end forecast with mention of some failure modes. By and large the local offices are concentrating on the failure modes and giving less airtime to the risk potential.

Here's my best call at the moment: moisture return is a concern. Too little or too late and we waste some significant parameters (or for the 99.9% of real people reading this, we avoid a high-end weather day). I'm going entirely on instinct here, combined with at least one model showing this scenario every time I've checked (though not always the same model).

What we'll have to watch for is the lone supercell initiating around 5pm somewhere in the US-281 corridor (Medicine Lodge, Pratt, St. John) and moving east or east-northeast. If that cell can maintain through 7pm, I think we're in for a very rough evening somewhere between Highway 50 (Sylvia to Newton) and the south state line. I consider Hutchinson and the entire Wichita metro at risk. NWS Wichita pushed the highest risk area to south of US 400 (Pratt, Kingman, Wichita, Augusta), I'm not quite ready to rule out the area between 50 and 400 (Preston, Langdon, Haven, Sedgwick, etc).

My hope is the moisture arrives a little too late and we're faced with a massive line of storms that produce gully-washer rains and some damaging straight-line wind. My fear is all the ingredients will come together and really mess up the weekend for somewhere in southern Kansas.

Heads up and eyes to the sky, okay? And if you're at the lake or outdoors, don't wait to take action -- when/if you see the towers develop to your west, pack it up and head for safety. Don't wait till it's in the next county over.

05/25/2024

KSStorm Info Update on tomorrow: Big day likely, But not a slam dunk. https://ksstorm.info/saturday-high-risk-coming/

While there are a couple of possible failure modes, we believe tomorrow will be a dangerous day for some Kansans.

05/23/2024

KSStorm Info Thursday Briefing: Typical Memorial Day weekend storm chances, two of the next five days have ENHANCED risk areas. https://ksstorm.info/briefing/2024-05-23/

Isolated storms south today, more numerous north. High-end day possible Saturday.

05/17/2024

KSStorm Info Friday Briefing: After a break, spring storms return. https://ksstorm.info/briefing/2024-05-17/

A potentially-active period gets underway tomorrow.