A NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar in Kansas, the United States, operated by National Weather Service, NOAA.
- Station
- Wichita (KICT)
- Operator
- National Weather Service, NOAA
- Network
- NEXRAD WSR-88D
- Antenna
- 37.654° N, 97.443° W, 1,335 ft (407 m) above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width
KICT is the Wichita weather radar, a NEXRAD WSR-88D operated by the National Weather Service. The antenna stands in Sedgwick County, Kansas, about 10 km southwest of Wichita, and the Wichita forecast office is responsible for it.
The office's own history says the WSR-88D was turned on on 13 October 1992 and officially commissioned on 20 April 1994, the sixth Doppler radar in the NWS network. In July 2011 it was upgraded to dual-polarisation, the third NWS radar to get it after Phoenix and Morehead City. The same history notes that the Wichita Weather Bureau office was the first in the service to have a weather radar, a converted Second World War set installed in 1947.
Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.