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GNIS ID. 473862 [3] Website. wichita.gov. Wichita ( / ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː / WITCH-ih-taw) [10] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. [5] [6] The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. [8]
The current National Weather Service Wichita is located at 2142 S. Tyler Road in the southwestern part of Wichita, near Eisenhower Airport, and is in charge of issuing local forecasts and weather warnings for central, south central, and southeastern Kansas. [2] It is one of four National Weather Service offices located in Kansas and one of ...
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:
The National Weather Service in Wichita issued the tornado watch just before noon. The area under the tornado watch includes about 40% of Kansas’ 105 counties, starting from Comanche County in ...
A major spring storm began developing in the western United States over the weekend of June 13–14, 1992. The storm ejected a minor upper air impulse across the Northern Plains on June 13, triggering severe weather across the extreme northwest corner of South Dakota. Golf ball sized hail and 10 inches of rain destroyed crops and killed over ...
Kansas Wichita, Kansas. Fully subjected to the heat wave, Wichita had an unusually hot summer in 2011. Wichita reached a temperature of 111 °F (44 °C) twice over the course of the heat wave, once in July, and once in August. Daytime highs in the months of June, July, and August averaged almost 9 °F over prior observed normals. The year was ...
From May 4–6, 2007, a major and damaging tornado outbreak significantly affected portions of the Central United States.The most destructive tornado in the outbreak occurred on the evening of May 4 in western Kansas, where about 95% of the city of Greensburg in Kiowa County was destroyed by an EF5 tornado, the first of such intensity since the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado.