It was 10 years ago on this day, the second-largest recorded snowstorm in Wichita history came to an end; 6.2 inches of snow fell on February 20, 2013, and another eight inches piled up on February 21, along with lightning and thundersnow on the morning of the 21st.
By the time the snow stopped early on the evening of the 21st, it added up to 14.2 inches of snow in Wichita. Most of Central & South-Central Kansas got about a foot of snow; parts of Kingman County received 18 inches.
Several emergency response teams were stuck in the snow responding to calls for assistance. Most flights at Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport were canceled. In the Wichita downtown and Delano areas, 500 dump-truck loads of snow were removed to a huge pile at Second Street & McLean Blvd.
The storm was the result of a powerful low pressure system emerging from the Southern Rockies, dropping heavy snow all the way from New Mexico to Michigan; Kansas got the worst of it.
The biggest recorded snowstorm in Wichita history was 15 inches of snow during the third week of January in 1962.