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Get the Wichita, KS local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] 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.
On April 1, 1930, the Wichita Municipal Airport (currently McConnell Air Force Base) weather office opened. Pilot Balloons were sent at 5:30 am and pm each day, and from April 1, 1930, to November 29, 1940, there were two Weather Bureau Offices in Wichita. [2]
Half-dollar sized hail is forecast to fall in the Wichita area.
Updated Monday: The National Weather Service in Wichita has expanded the area that could be threatened by dangerous storms carrying up to softball-sized hail, 80 mph winds and destructive “long ...
KAKE presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays). For 30 years, KAKE was the highest-rated station in the Wichita–Hutchinson market, even though it did not build an extensive translator/satellite network in central and western Kansas until the 1980s.
Two years later, with the inserts having expanded to 15 minutes inside KAKE's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, KAKE announced that a new regional news program for western Kansas, known as KTN West, would be launched to air on KLBY and KUPK in Garden City. [10] Currently, KLBY airs KAKE's newscasts in their entirety with no local inserts.
[5] Laubach was the weekend morning meteorologist and storm chaser for KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas. He joined the team on March 19, 2018 and debuted on-air a week later on March 25. [6] Three years later on March 25, 2021, Laubach announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving KAKE with his last day being May 2.