Pratt County News

Wheat harvest has started in Pratt County. Carter and Mark Barker and their combine drivers Trey Langford and Wayne Leis started cutting about 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23 in a field on the west side of Pratt Livestock about two miles east of Pratt.

The severe thunderstorms causing the National Weather Service to issue tornado warnings for four counties west of Wichita is moving toward Sedgwick County, a forecaster said this evening.

Tornadoes also were reported near Sawyer in Pratt County, near Seward in Stafford County, near Timken and Rush Center in Rush County and near Hanston in Hodgeman County.

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