Weather Alerts For Chase, KS

# HEADLINE -------------------- A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR WESTERN MCPHERSON, RENO, RICE, KINGMAN AND SOUTHEASTERN BARTON COUNTIES # SUMMARY -------------------- At 1215 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles south of Geneseo to near South Hutchinson to near Kingman to near Isabel, moving southeast at 45 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD 70 mph wind gusts. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Hutchinson, Mcpherson, Lyons, Kingman, South Hutchinson, Sterling, Ellinwood, Inman, Buhler, Haven, Nickerson, Pretty Prairie, Little River, Chase, Arlington, Cunningham, Turon, Bushton, Geneseo, and Partridge. ISSUED AT Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Wichita KS HEADER Severe Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Barton KS, Kingman KS, McPherson KS, Reno KS, Rice KS

# SUMMARY -------------------- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 359 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN KANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 11 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KANSAS BARTON ELLSWORTH LINCOLN MARION MCPHERSON RICE RUSSELL SALINE IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS CHASE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS HARVEY RENO THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF COTTONWOOD FALLS, ELLSWORTH, GREAT BEND, HILLSBORO, HUTCHINSON, LINCOLN, LYONS, MARION, MCPHERSON, NEWTON, PEABODY, RUSSELL, SALINA, STERLING, STRONG CITY, SYLVAN GROVE, AND WILSON. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCHES 359/361/362

Closest strike: 0.06 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Enhanced Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF KANSAS SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms remain likely across parts of the central Plains this evening into late tonight. Large hail, severe winds (some 75+ mph), and a few tornadoes are possible. Central Plains An intense supercell cluster over northwest KS is expected to grow at least modestly upscale with time this evening, and spread east-southeastward across parts of northern/central KS, while more isolated supercells may evolve across southwest KS and move toward south-central KS through at least dusk. MLCAPE of near/above 2000 J/kg and effective shear of 50+ kt will continue to support organized storms with large hail (potentially 2+ inches in diameter with any sustained supercells), severe wind gusts (possibly 75+ mph), and some tornado potential, especially with storms that persist into richer low-level moisture across central/eastern KS. Storm evolution remains somewhat uncertain overnight into eastern KS and western MO, but a storm cluster and possible MCS may continue through the end of the period, with severe-wind potential, and some hail and tornado threat with any embedded supercells. Farther northeast, elevated supercells may continue to pose a threat of hail and isolated strong to severe gusts from southeast NE into northeast KS through dusk. See MCD 1215 for more information. To the west, a cluster of storms with a history of measured severe gusts is moving into parts of southwest SD and the NE Panhandle. Increasing CINH with time and eastward extent should result in a gradual weakening trend, though some severe threat will remain possible into mid/late evening across the NE Sand Hills region. See MCD 1218 for more information. Some threat for isolated supercells may persist farther south into northeast CO through dusk, with a threat of hail. Other remnant high-based convection may pose a threat of localized severe gusts through dusk across parts of western/central WY.