Severe Weather 2015

[DUShock]

Got the tornado!!! Got am awesome picture

post it!

[SB Shock]

Got the tornado!!! Got am awesome picture

and sir why have you not posted?

[SB Shock]

man... Dave Freeman didn't want to give it up even after it was well over.

[Kung Wu]

Nice that our advanced, high dollar, hyper local tornado warning siren system failed and they had to blare it for the whole county.

[twister17e]

What caused pretty much all the major storms in Kansas to almost simultaneously collapse?

[Kung Wu]

What caused pretty much all the major storms in Kansas to almost simultaneously collapse?

$3.3 million offer.

[SB Shock]

What caused pretty much all the major storms in Kansas to almost simultaneously collapse?

dave freeman hot air?

I would conjecture the following:

1. The cap was really strong yesterday.

2. High cloud cover and location of warm front help keeped the atmosphere from getting to destabilize through the day and the cap was still pretty strong at peak heating.

3. therefore it took the upper level dynamics to break the cap, and once the upper level dynamics was over there wasn't enough instabilty even with the LLJ to keep it going and the cap ended up squishing it.

[Kung Wu]

Well that was a ripoff.

[SHOCKvalue]

I just wanted some rain for the yard and landscaping. The drought-deluge cycle we've been on for the past several years is getting old. Sprinkler systems on city water can't keep up, unless you want a mortgage payment-sized water bill. This has got to be one of the driest springs we've had recently.

I would go look up our YTD rainfall at the Wichita NWS site, but I don't want another headache from trying to rummage through that mess. Any suggestions for weather sites that have archived info, but are easier to wade through than the NWS stuff?

[Kung Wu]

I just wanted some rain for the yard and landscaping. The drought-deluge cycle we've been on for the past several years is getting old. Sprinkler systems on city water can't keep up, unless you want a mortgage payment-sized water bill. This has got to be one of the driest springs we've had recently.

I would go look up our YTD rainfall at the Wichita NWS site, but I don't want another headache from trying to rummage through that mess. Any suggestions for weather sites that have archived info, but are easier to wade through than the NWS stuff?

Go here: http://www.wunderground.com/history/

Enter your zip code. Then check out the "Monthly" tab, for example.

[SB Shock]

I just wanted some rain for the yard and landscaping. The drought-deluge cycle we've been on for the past several years is getting old. Sprinkler systems on city water can't keep up, unless you want a mortgage payment-sized water bill. This has got to be one of the driest springs we've had recently.

I would go look up our YTD rainfall at the Wichita NWS site, but I don't want another headache from trying to rummage through that mess. Any suggestions for weather sites that have archived info, but are easier to wade through than the NWS stuff?

Go to Cocorahs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network). This is really the best site to see rainfall (rainfall reported at the NWS site is only true for that location). If you like it, join and become a reporting member. For example in the Sedgwick county the reported rainfall ranged from trace to 1.38 inches. Link:

http://www.cocorahs.org/state.aspx?state=ks

[DUShock]

Go to Cocorahs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network). This is really the best site to see rainfall (rainfall reported at the NWS site is only true for that location). If you like it, join and become a reporting member. For example in the Sedgwick county the reported rainfall ranged from trace to 1.38 inches. Link:


http://www.cocorahs.org/state.aspx?state=ks

Did the boy wonder @dofo introduce this site to you? ;)

[WstateU]

You guys are better than the KFDI guys. Keep the reports coming.

Damn, I miss these guys; Nelson 'Schock' was one of my favorites... their weather reporting was second to none and made me feel safe.

The Ranch Hands

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...10th-Album.pdf

I thought this deserved more attention; probably should have posted a 'new' thread in the basketball section -

If you grew up in the Wichita area in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s you probably listened to KFDI radio; especially during severe weather and breaking news (Pony Express News). Before modern radar maps and technologies, ‘The Ranch Hands’ were our ‘eye in the sky’ and we trusted them to keep us safe.

The KFDI radio sports editor was Ernie Tousley. He was also the WSU public address announcer during the 70’s and early 80’s (maybe even the 60’s?). I always thought he had a great voice and his player introductions always ‘rocked the house’; specifically his introductions of Ozell Jones and Antoine Carr. He went on to law school and the last I knew was an attorney with Ohara Ohara & Tousley in Wichita. I know he’s been mentioned on Shockernet in the past. Who knows, maybe he’s one of us?
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I’m sure a lot of the following people have passed, however my memories of them remain strong. Their voices will always be 'etched' in my memory. Some of them have WSU connections.

KFDI AM 1070 – The Ranch Hands (see bios on the pdf below)
Mike Lynch – Foreman
Mike Oatman – “Save your records and tapes my friends, because country music is going to rise again.”
Don Walton
Gary Hightower
Terry Burford
Jay Shankle
Buddy Nichols (now that’s a mustache!)
“Willie Wheelchair”
Jerry Adams
Joe Montgomery
Jim Setters
Nelson Schock (probably my favorite Ranch Hand; loved his live 'mobile team' weather reports)
Chuck Hogan
Jim Banzer
Barry Elvin
Jackie Edwards
Ernie Tousley (Sports Editor)
Dale Noah (Weatherman)
Ralph Cramm Jr. (Outdoor Editor)
Glendene O’Neal
Rex Childs
John Jolly
John Meyer

American Radio History – KFDI Album (great memories)

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/KFDI-10th-Album.pdf

[SHOXAAC]

I thought this deserved more attention; probably should have posted a 'new' thread in the basketball section -

If you grew up in the Wichita area in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s you probably listened to KFDI radio; especially during severe weather and breaking news (Pony Express News). Before modern radar maps and technologies, ‘The Ranch Hands’ were our ‘eye in the sky’ and we trusted them to keep us safe.

The KFDI radio sports editor was Ernie Tousley. He was also the WSU public address announcer during the 70’s and early 80’s (maybe even the 60’s?). I always thought he had a great voice and his player introductions always ‘rocked the house’; specifically his introductions of Ozell Jones and Antoine Carr. He went on to law school and the last I knew was an attorney with Ohara Ohara & Tousley in Wichita. I know he’s been mentioned on Shockernet in the past. Who knows, maybe he’s one of us?

I’m sure a lot of the following people have passed, however my memories of them remain strong. Their voices will always be 'etched' in my memory. Some of them have WSU connections.

KFDI AM 1070 – The Ranch Hands (see bios on the pdf below)
Mike Lynch – Foreman
Mike Oatman – “Save your records and tapes my friends, because country music is going to rise again.”
Don Walton
Gary Hightower
Terry Burford
Jay Shankle
Buddy Nichols (now that’s a mustache!)
“Willie Wheelchair”
Jerry Adams
Joe Montgomery
Jim Setters
Nelson Schock (probably my favorite Ranch Hand; loved his live 'mobile team' weather reports)
Chuck Hogan
Jim Banzer
Barry Elvin
Jackie Edwards
Ernie Tousley (Sports Editor)
Dale Noah (Weatherman)
Ralph Cramm Jr. (Outdoor Editor)
Glendene O’Neal
Rex Childs
John Jolly
John Meyer

American Radio History – KFDI Album (great memories)

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...10th-Album.pdf

I can still hear "I'm Ernie Tousley, that's sports!"

[shocka khan]

I really appreciated Old Mike. He had a love for Texas Swing and so did I. "Bob Wills is STILL the king!"