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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
612 AM CDT TUE AUG 19 2025
..ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY
IN 2016, FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN CAUSED SIGNIFICANT
FLOODING ACROSS SEDGWICK AND BUTLER COUNTIES. HARDEST
HIT WERE THE TOWNS OF ROSE HILL AND MULVANE, WHERE MOST
OF THE RAIN OCCURRED IN JUST TWO HOURS. NUMEROUS WATER
RESCUES TOOK PLACE AND SOME HOMES HAD TO BE EVACUATED.
ONE PERSON WAS KILLED WHEN A PICKUP WAS WASHED OFF THE
ROAD IN BUTLER COUNTY.
IN 1987, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED FROM EASTERN
NEBRASKA TO EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI PRODUCED
HAIL THREE INCHES IN DIAMETER AND 80 MPH WINDS. THE
THREE INCH DIAMETER HAIL BOMBARDED ALBION NEBRASKA,
LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORFOLK.BASEBALL SIZED
HAIL STRUCK JUST NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA. ESPECIALLY HARD
HIT WAS FRANKLIN COUNTY, WHERE CROP DAMAGE WAS AROUND
$3.5 MILLION AND 10 PEOPLE WERE INJURED. LATER THE SMALL
TOWN OF FULTON KANSAS WAS WHIPPED BY 80 MPH GUSTS.
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