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Get the Wichita, KS local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The National Weather Service Wichita, Kansas (NWS Wichita) is a local weather forecast office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 26 counties in central, south-central, and southeastern Kansas, including the Wichita Metropolitan Area and Salina, Kansas.
Call sign Frequency City of License Licensee Format [citation needed]; KABI: 1560 AM: Abilene: Meridian Media, LLC: Classic hits KACY: 102.5 FM: Arkansas City: Tornado Alley Communications, LLC
Wichita (/ ˈ w ɪ tʃ ɪ t ɔː / WITCH-ih-taw) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532.
Wichita saw its first winter weather of the season on Oct. 29, when a trace of sleet and possibly flurries fell, she said. Other facts about snowfall in Wichita based on the running 30-year average:
Prehistory and exploration. The site at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers has served as a trading center and meeting place for nomadic hunting people for at least 11,000 years. [1] Human habitation in the Wichita area has been dated, in archeological digs, as far back as 3,000 B.C. [2]
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices in six regions. Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
1991 Andover tornado outbreak. From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak. Forced by a potent trough and focused along a dryline, these distinct thunderstorms moved northeast through a moist and highly unstable environment. A total of 55 tornadoes were confirmed, many of which ...