14 June 2023
Showers and storms earlier moved out of the area a while ago. Leftover clouds are over south central and south central Kansas with the remainder of the viewing region seeing mostly sunny skies. Temperatures at this hour are warming nicely into the comfortable 70s making for a very pleasant Midday with Storm Tracker radar showing no precipitation anywhere at Lunchtime.
The clouds will allow for some sunny times this afternoon and we’ll see our temperatures cranking up into the lower 80s.
A few more pop up storms will be possible, mainly over south central Kansas this afternoon but the rest of Kansas will stay dry this afternoon.
We will not have as much support for storm development today and as such only a few spotty storms will be in the picture, mainly over the south central and southeast parts of Kansas giving the western part of the state a nice break. Lows tonight will be nice and cool with 50s west and 60s east with just an isolated shower chance over north central Kansas.
Tomorrow we crank the heat up a few degrees, rising to the upper 80s in Wichita and mid 80s out west.
An upper level disturbance will move into western Kansas tomorrow afternoon and provides support for more showers and storms to develop. A complex of storms is likely to form and march to the east.
Ingredients look to be in place for these storms to maintain themselves well into the overnight as they march east.
A Slight Risk is in effect for much of Kansas tomorrow. The primary threat will be damaging wind gusts in central Kansas, with large hail and a tornado or two not out of the question especially in western Kansas before the storms merge together into a line.
Friday will be more on the dry side after the storms move through but a couple of pop up storms may still happen in the afternoon. Another round of thunderstorms will be possible on Saturday especially in central and eastern Kansas.
After the weekend’s storms move out, we will finally see a few days with little to no storm activity in our area. Temperatures soar into the 90s across the state by Sunday and we stay toasty into early next week. Showers and storms may try to come back into the picture by the middle of next week, which would help to bring temperatures down a bit.
6/14/23 KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Ronelle Williams:
Wichita:
This afternoon: Partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms. Hi: 83 Wind: SW 5-15
Tonight: Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms. Lo: 62 Wind: S 5-15
Tomorrow: Partly to mostly cloudy. 40% chance of showers and storms. Hi: 89 Wind: SE 5-15
Tomorrow night: Mostly cloudy. 50% chance of showers and storms. Lo: 64 Wind: SE 8-18
Wichita Weekly
Fri: Hi: 86 Lo: 65 Partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms.
Sat: Hi: 87 Lo: 65 Partly cloudy. 30% chance of showers and storms.
Sun: Hi: 92 Lo: 69 Partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms.
Mon: Hi: 94 Lo: 70 Partly cloudy.
Tue: Hi: 95 Lo: 69 Mostly sunny.
Wed: Hi: 93 Lo: 68 Partly cloudy.
Meteorologist Ronelle Williams