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Once again the SPC over did the threat of severe weather.  There was no reason that a PDS watch needed to be issued.  This is now the second time they have done this and it is really getting old that they continue to scare people with the threat and it lands up being in the 60's with just some nice soaking rainfall.  My feeling is that the watch will be cancelled soon as the chance of severe weather is pretty much gone.

Have a great day!

Jacob Honeycutt

Oh phooey! That means those storms are getting organized before they reach me. So the PDS might really apply for down here in Joplin. From the looks of the storm right now, it might just clip me. :::shakes head::: It's always something.

Hope everyone is having a nice Fathers Day.

So it looks like southern mo is gonna get the worst, great, I'm on vacation in branson

I agree Jacob. Even on the blog it became an OMG, a PDS, which is why we have to be very careful about getting all our info from here unless posted by the weather team. We all got worried (concerned) about this situation, alerted family, changed plans, and all for a regular old thunderstorm. I guess the NWS has to do this to cover themselves when the conditions are favorable but this is the second PDS watch in as many weeks and those things did not materialize for us.

Sweet.  We've had enough rain.

Ugh, just lost a huge limb of my cottonwood tree. It ended up landed about 50 feet away from the tree and took out my garden!!! :(  So far only .40 inches of rain in the gauge with a light rain still falling.

Just a question...

I noticed development on a line from north of St. Joe to Marysville (KS/NE border) and then smaller storms from Marysville to n of Salina.  In fact, north of St. Joe seems to be growing.  Is this the storms last gasp or is there potential for more rain?  I read Jeff's entry and I don't want to sound like several of the posters on here who second guess everything, but it wasn't what I expected to see after reading the blog entry.  I love me some Jeff Penner!  I just was expecting to see it.  Any ideas?  

Pleasanton, KS is getting an ornery cell passing through.

I'm all for not getting hyped up, that said when the NWS puts out something as dangerous as a PDS watch I still think it's better to be safe & be aware, then be sorry & ignore it just because a few (not all)  bloggers don't think it will do anything.

If it didnt/doesnt do anything wonderful, you few just go ahead & brag & pat yourselves on the back all you want to, as for me I will go by what the experts here & at the NWS say & alert family for the possibility of bad weather.  Better safe than sorry.

For those who are getting bad weather please stay safe!

This is what I'm looking at...

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=eax

STW at the tri-state area and farther west, there is a tornado warning East of Phillipsburg.

I will take some pics if it gets bad, they don't need any more rain down here, table rock is really high, all the lakeside parks are under water

Well, even Jeff says it is pretty much done for us except some lingering rain. He says everything is south now and I don't think we are second guessing him. In fact I think the SPC made a much bigger deal out of this for the metro area than the weather team did.

Braysmama- sorry to hear about your garden!  We have a big old maple in our back yard that usually loses a few branches anytime we get wind, but so far this season we've been pretty lucky that we've only had a small branch come down ( knocks on wood ). At least it didn't hit your house or car!  Dea

Um, I don't think I said it wouldn't do anything. I said this is the second time in 2 weeks a PDS was put out and nothing happened in our immediate area. Of course, we should all be aware , that goes without saying. But when people see that kind of warning, many go into panic mode as we have seen before. Given the type of weather the midwest has experienced lately that's understandable that some would get really worried. But even the weather team did not go into panic mode during this because if you recall, a few were complaining that no one was breaking in with updates this morning when tehre really wasn't anything to say at the time.

Because things do not materialize, that should be a blessing.  Considering the huge values right now supporting very strong thunderstorms, the PDS was warranted.

The only thing really lacking nearby was enough instability.  Consider us lucky to not have to worry about it.

The watch is to gain awareness...and it succeeded.  As the atmosphere needs many things to be just right for severe weather, it is quite possible in areas where it may not come to fruition.

The SPC looks over a broad area where conditions are favorable.  I believe it says this in the text of each watch.  Because it did not happen in your backyard does not mean it was a bust.

Just means we lucked out...I can think of many that would like to "luck out"

While it is easy to reflect upon what did or did not happen, until you are the one making the decisions based on your many years of intense training, it might be a bit over the top to call out all those that are trained in looking at this.

I am happy it missed as I can enjoy my Father's Day in peace...leave the bad weather for someone else...

Yep we are getting a pretty good rain event right now. No wind and pea size hail as of right now.
Monica
Pleasanton, KS

Folks,

As I posted in the previous blog topic - the watch was appropriately issued and we should refrain from making negative statements.

I bet you that some people in the watch area did get scary weather - just because you or I did not it means nothing.

People died in the last PDS watch - not here - not everyone in a tri-state warning area will be affected. Ultimately it is personal responsibility to head the warnings or not.

Be safe!

John

Braysmama, yep, sorry to hear about your garden too.  This is the first year for mine and I sweat these storms everytime they come through.  Thank goodness it didn't wallop KC, and for those of you still in it's path, got my fingers crossed that it'll wimp out for you too.

I hate when the NWS increases severe weather threat and then it is posted here that a few linguering showers is all that remains. Early in the Day Miami/Linn county was in a 70% chance of severe storms, now it says 90%. What gives???? Very hard to plan on what to do.... go see my dad, turn the horses out etc.

The PDS things are such a double edged sword in my opinion.  I was about to say that I agree the PDS for our area was completely unnecessary, but it looks like it might be merited down further to the south.  However I see the point that if they continue to issue PDS's for our area in situations like this that people will start to take them less and less seriously which could be a pretty bad thing.

Anyways, I'm glad this seems like it was a pretty minor event for the KC metro!

I'd rather have a PDS issued and watch the weather, than be surprised. Much better to say "Whew, glad we missed the bullet" than getting nailed unexpectantly.

Well said, Pilot and KCWXGUY!  The SPC puts out predictions.  Not certainties.  It confuses me why people do not understand this.

Braysmama - Sorry about your garden.  I have a garden and I know how much time and hard work is put into it.  Thankfully, it is still early June.  You can replant the tomatos and such.  Maybe you won't have a bumper crop, but you'll still have some fresh veggies later this summer.

To prove the point four counties are under a Tornado Warning in the Norther western part of the PDS - we need to trust that the folks at NOAA know what they are doing.

John

I would rather see a high risk I guess than a PDS. And even a high risk gets people pretty worried. KsWX I don't mean to sound like I'm second guessing, but it does tend to scare people and we've seen the people who come on really scared over even a slight risk so you can imagine how they feel when they find out what a PDS means. I just think maybe it should have been issued south and north of us.

What about the MD http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md1398.html. It says more storms could fire. It is about 72* and sunny! Not a cloud in the sky here in western lawrence! I think another MCS is possible, it it does then severe weather would be a bigger concern but the watch, I agree, should be canncelled.

Question, for anyone who can read the current maps.... where is the actual cold front at the moment?  I know it's cooled off here, just wondered if that was the front, or from the storms?

There are tornado warnings in SW MO, but it sure is nice right now here.

Chase, I couldn't have said it better than you did at 2:41 pm!

When church was over (in Leavenworth) the wind was blowing very hard and the skies looked very ominous.  Against my better judgment, I headed home.  It got progressively and quickly worse.  It started raining, lightning, and thunder all the time with the wind blowing harder and harder.  When I drove in just off the road ahead of me just enough to clear the road was a good-sized tree branch blocking my driveway.  It was too far for me to walk to my house, so I was just getting out of my car to attempt to move the branch when a young friend from church came from nowhere , it seemed, (actually from his parents' car), and moved it for me.   I drove on to my house and was getting out of my car when he reappeared as he wanted to make sure I got safely into the house.  He was my quiet angel!  Also, his family!

Our weather radio forecast had been thunderstorms at 1:00 pm.  They were an hour late on the forecast!

One has to remember, just because things didn't affect you doesn't mean warnings aren't warrented, there are fellow bloggers who aren't out of the woods yet.  

All I can picture is that old man they showed on t.v. sitting in a chair where his house used to be.  I bet he's wishing it was all hype and nothing produced.

Was there a tornado outbreak earlier in the season that was a "slight" risk?  

Anyone know of any live feeds for radio or tv in the Osceola area?  

Im at the Lake of the Ozarks for the weekend, and we are getting hit hard with weather... they just let expire the tornado warning... Im over by Laurie.

There's one little cell out west of Salina. Wondering if that means more storms will build and move in. Sure hope not. We sure didn't get much rain. Very thankful for that. We still have standing water in the pastures so maybe we dry out a bit. It is very refreshing right now... opened all the windows and letting the cool breeze blow in. Making fried chicken too!

emcat, that area is covered by Springfield. I like ky3.com also here is a link for all the MO channels - http://newslink.org/motele.html.

Thanks, farmgirl.  I went to their web site but didn't see a live feed.  We're worried about the scout camp since they were under a tornado warnng -- was hoping to hear live feed that could give us a report.  Enjoy your fried chicken!!

Can I go to my event this evening?  We will be riding the bus.  Is it going to hail and tornate on us this evening about 9 or is the metro out of the woods?
Also, can I have some fried chicken?

I just cam in from working outside. Whirlygirl ~ you said that there are tornado warnings down here. Which county or counties? My weather radio isn't showing one and I can't find it on wunderground. What am I missing?

I have family down at Lake Pomme de Tarre(spelling?) in the Nemo area. I cannot reach them. I know there was a tornado warning down there. Does anyone know if there was an actual tornado in the area?

I'm just not seeing the tornado warning.

The original tornado warning was set to expire at 4:00 pm but I think they let it expire early.

Kimba, I just looked up Hermitage, MO where Lake Pomme De Terre is and they're under a severe thunderstorm watch like me.

Lorie in SW MO, I think they have all expired, but you were under one earlier this afternoon.  I never heard of any acutal touchdowns.

From what I see, most or all of the KC metro area is now out of the severe t'storm watch, but there is still another one close by, out to our west.

I saw one for Osceola and whatever county that is in

Thanks,
That makes me feel better. Maybe the power is just out at the campsite.

Isn't that amazing? Something to be said for sounding a siren ~ maybe a one spin so everybody would go look at their TV or listen to radio. I knew we were under a sever watch but got distracted with a dog digging in my garden. So I spent about an hour out there undoing the damage.

Well I wish we'd gotten the cool front cause it's 93 here with a heat ndex of 99. That sounds more like August temps.

Near 76th and N. Troost in Northern Gladstone, I got .4 in. since noon today.

Mike in Gladstone

Farmgirl, you made me hungry, lol.  

Just went out to rehang the flowers.  Sun's out and starting to warm up again - time to close the windows and resume the a/c.  Temp jumped from 68 back to 73 in about 20 minutes.
I'm looking forward to the cool spell, be nice to shut it off for a couple of days and just have the windows open, especially at night.

Right at .50 in the rain gauge by the stadiums.

Oh, Lorie sorry your're that hot and sticky. Hope you just get Ol'fashioned thunderstorms without the severe part. You all have had your share of the weather.

Hey Guys, i'm up and around again, well as one Particular blogger put it(pun intended) this was was a Particularly disappointing situation. but like I said in the last blog. The SPC put this situation under a micron microscope and turned into something big. but look a lot of people were prepared today and luckily nothing bad came out of it for the metro area. Lorie how you doin down there in Joplin?

If you notice we are out of the moderate risk. It has moved south of us. I don't even see any mention of a PDS anymore.

Can some one tell me if some bad weather is headed towards us in branson, it looks ominous

The PDS goes for another 2 minutes for Lawrence Eastward but really they should have cancelled it. Our dewpoints really crashed despite our winds being out of the southeast. the MCS really has messed up the entire area and created it's own weather.

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We took it out hours ago.

Gary

FarmGirl is still in the moderate risk as is Grumpyred and Lorie in SW MO.

The SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH has been allowed to expire to our west!  Looks like we are done for today.

It really has been done for quite some time.  Just not officially I guess.

adogg. the complex is to your north and heading in your General direction but like we were talking about in the last blog there is an outflow boundary coming out of it so the storms may tend to weaken as they approach you, they still are considered severe so when that outflow boundary comes towards you in about 20 minutes expect some REALLY gusty winds.

It certainly does appear that way jacob. If dewpoints were still high I'd be more concerned about redevelopment. plus temps are so cool so I think our atmosphere's about had it. I don't think it could create another thunderstorm if we stuck a one mile blow dryer underneath it.

adogg ~ I'm looking at the radar and there's a red blob over Springfield and another to the NE of Springfield. It's moving to the SE. So it looks like it will miss Branson but hard to tell. There might still be a pop up. That's the best I can do, sorry.

when I said Lawrence eastward, I meant westward sorry for the mix up folks.

Those who may get tired of PDS's that come to nothing...remember Sunday May 4 2003?  It didn't even seem like tornado weather at my house in Brookside.  I had heard from some people in Warrensburg that it was going to be bad the next day and I hadn't heard about it so I came home a day early from camping out in Warrensburg.  I didn't know about PDS's but I was looking after my aging parents so I started googling the weather that morning and found the PDS and everyone on weather sites hitting the ceiling talking about 60,000 foot tops and troughs and drylines.  I didn't know what that meant either.  The sun was shining and not a cloud in the sky!  Not one of my friends knew anything was supposed to happen.  Some of my friends were out running around doing nature hikes and what-all.  

Nevertheless the ominous wording on the computer prompted me to call my parents and tell them to be watching the weather and ready to go to the basement about 4 p.m. if anything happened.  They live in an old people's patio home subdivision.  Did they listen to me, NO, they went to bed for their Sunday afternoon nap.  But if not for my phone call maybe they would have been out at some church picnic or puttering in the garden or down in the neighbors garage jawing about  these young whippersnappers with their boombox cars.

That F-4 tornado hit their house out of NOWHERE, they had about 15 seconds to get to the basement.  By the way their neighbors garage that they could have been in, collapsed with a huge beam across the cars and the other neighbor's house was *completely gone* except for the hole in the floor that that led to the basement.   It did not look like tornado weather or stormy.  I know it did not really come out of nowhere...it was a PDS that day...but it didn't *look* like one!  All day it was an outbreak and it never did look stormy at my house.  My other friends were standing on a ridge overlooking the river when their ears began to pop and they *still* didn't know anything was going on!  They said "We'd better get out of here" based solely on their ears popping!  

So I say bring on the OMG's and the PDS's, because it does not always look like stormy weather when it really is the big one.  

Not sure anyone is interested/cares, but tonight on the plgn  (direct tv channel 286 ) they are doing a show on greensburg and how they are rebuilding green.  

"I don't think it could create another thunderstorm if we stuck a one mile blow dryer underneath it."

HAHAHA!!!

Anybody have a clue as to how strong the winds were when they came thru Cass/Johnson counties? I went and checked and the limb that fell on my garden was 10" inches in diameter and at least 30' foot long. I actually saw it break off and the wind was so strong that it lifted the limb off and threw it over 35 feet. I would think that the wind would have to be really severe to do that, but there were no warnings.

Hey Hail!  How's it going today?  So much for some interesting weather...uhh?

Kelly, I remember that day very clearly, I was off that day of work, and I was glued to the computer, but then all the sudden it became overcast, but not stormy overcast, so I thought maybe that the PDS thing was overdone then too. but boy was I WRONG.

Laura I saw a show like that already this year it was really neat!

Braysmama, there don't have to be warnings in effect for there to be severe weather. It can develop suddenly and "without warning" I don't know how strong the winds would have been but a sustained 60 mph wind  for a period could have done that or a gust up to 70 could have. if thats the only damage you see I wouldn't expect much more than that.

Well I just heard from my family at the campground near the Pittsburg/Nemo Mo area. They hid in a basement of a house not too far from them. A local volunteer firefighter sent them over there. There were no touchdowns that they know of in the Nemo area just warnings.

Also, I do not know who to tell but we are not seeing the Missouri side of the map on the NBC channel anymore. It cuts off at the state line now. Is Missouri not important anymore? Is it because they are broadcasting in HD now? The map is too far to the right of the screen. I have to change the channel to channel 5 now just so I can see the missouri side of the maps. I was just hoping someone at NBC would take note of this. Is it an NBC or a Dish Network problem?

Hey Jacob!=) yeah I was up at the crack of dawn this morning and saw the MCS developing this morning and I knew I couldn't go back to sleep, a few hours later I saw the craziest thing I've ever seen. a PDS t storm watch, so yeah what a day=P

Kelly ~ that was really scary. We live close to Carl Junction where a an F4 ripped thru the community that day. It didn't look really bad out and I wasn't too worried until the local met. guy told the crew at the TV station to take cover. We're 4 blocks from that station.

I'm so glad that your parents were ok. I often wondered about people saying that sometimes you only have seconds to head to safety. Thanks for posting your experience.

I don't know Kimba, there are no watches or warnings in effect anymore so on my tv they took the whole thing down.

I know...I've never seen a PDS Severe Thunderstorm Watch before!  It was really weird to see and hear about...but in the end, we lucked out and didn't get that 3" hail and that 90mph+ winds they were talking about.  =)

that's another reason why PDS's and watches are issued in general because sometimes warnings aren't issued and the watches are a back up so you are prepared anyway so that when you hear the thunder you know the potential is there for it to be violent.

It's happened the last couple of storms. Not just todays.

We had .28" of rain here in LS Mo.

Oooo, temp just dropped to 80 which is much nicer and the wind has picked up. Map still not showing anything and that's fine with me.

Can you all believe it...a day of a severe weather outbreak, and not 1 tornado report?!?  With the way this year has been going, I didn't think that was possible!  LOL. =)

I saw that 90 mph wind in the discussion this morning and a big red flag went up but. it turns out conditions were not that favorable after all so we just have to wait for the next one right?

Lost satellite, so no tv or internet...which usually means we wabout to get a storm, so far just sprinkles...back to sidekick (frown)

yeah lorie there's an outflow boundary moving through your area right now.

Hail...I'm afraid that you might have to wait until next Spring...lol.

Just checked the rain gauge and there was .60"

Laura in Raytown

okay well now I have to go again. Fathers day stuff. Bye bye See ya guys later!

Ok let's take a vote. Those in favor of no more severe weather say Aye!
                             Those opposed say Nay!

I vote Aye!

Thanks lorie and hail, it looks really nasty here, last time I was down here there was a microburst, I had never seen that much wide spread damage

hey hail, im sure this has been asked before but how old are you? you sure seem to have alot of knowledge about the weather and everything....

speaking of weather maybe you can answer this one. Sun is beginning to peak through here in chillicothe with the cold front still well off to our northwest, doesnt that mean that when it starts to move through the sun would have destabilized the air enough for random thunderstorms to develop right along the front? i believe my thinking is right on that one.

I plan on going to Worlds of Fun on Tuesday and it really looks like I picked the right day to do it!  Summer really looks like it's going to settle in here in about a week or two!  So we should all enjoy the nice temperatures while it lasts!

2 miles west of Smithville rain total was a paltry 0.125"

Well Lorie...I vote both ways.  I enjoy the excitement but I hate when peoples lives are damaged forever!  So I say...AyeNay!  =)  =)

Jacob

adogg ~ I still think it's going to stay off just to your NE. It may clip the NE part of Branson.

Randy...Hail is 26.

I'm 26 years young Randy! Only Gary could answer this one for sure. but I'm not really concerned about redevelopment today because that MCS crashed our temps and our dewpoints so we are VERY stable right now. and I don't think there is enough daylight left to get things churned again. but again Gary would really be the one to field that question completely correct. Okay guys see ya'll later.

AYE! Looks like a renegade storm headed towards me. Starting to thunder out to the west.

Have a great end of the day Hail...see you later!

I say aye unless I'm paying someone to take me far far away to the bad weather.

adogg ~ it's going to be close. Are you in a bldg or a tent? Get to a bldg to be on safe side.

"Not sure anyone is interested/cares, but tonight on the plgn  (direct tv channel 286 ) they are doing a show on greensburg and how they are rebuilding green. "


I care!  I grew up in Greensburg.  226 I believe on Time Warner Cable.  8 pm. Thanks!

i honestly think theres enough daylight left, in fact as i type this more isolated cells are developing to my WNW according to my grlevel3. it doesnt get dark until 9.

Yeah Randy, I got a pop up headed for me. adogg ~ there's a new pop up in your area.

Lorie,

where are you located?

Our severe weather threat is over...

Does anybody know what happened to Scott?  He hasn't been here forever!  

Thanks lorie it looks like the worst at the moment will stay to the east of here, but if you could, keep an eye on things for me, I have no way to see radar, outflow boundry is comin through now

no problem adogg. i don't know outflow boundry etc but have been watching the radar on wunderground and zoomed in on TWC radar.

Randy ~ the SW corner of Jasper county, SW part of Joplin

Storm to the west of La Cygne is getting a little bit bigger. Hope it's just a quick shower, don't feel like going back out and walking the horses back in.

Scott sometimes doesn't blog here much depending on the comments. It's also Father's Day so maybe he had other things to do besides sit on the blog today.

Here in Osawatomie we are gettinga shower yet the sun is shining as well.. Weird!

The sky sure is dark off to the southeast, but I'm thinking it looks darker because the sun is out.  Hope that made sense. lol

Walked outside & boy could I smell the rain.  Hate the bad weather but love the smell of rain!

Hope it stays just a shower for us & you farmgirl.

Do you know what "Scott" I'm talking about?  His user name is "scott"

Yes Jacob, if you mean Scott who is very knowledgeable about analyzing the weather, he is now going by KCWXGUY.

According to the weather station at the Lee's Summit airport, we got .52 inches of rain today in Lee's Summit, MO.
Audra

adogg ~ pop up to your NW moving into your area. 1" hail

Yeah Chase, got lots of Thunder some sun and dark clouds to the southwest. I can't smell the rain yet, maybe it will skip over me. :)

darn storm is passin us to the north! arrrgh. thats the second time today!

Well I can say that it won't skip over. It's pouring! ha!

A beautiful and intense little cell just popped up in eastern Wyandotte county - aimed right for the southern half of the metro loop...

It really took off in just three radar frames (about 15 minutes).

Thanks lorie, I will keep an eye to the sky,  it still looks spooky

A cell just blew up over the Legends. Only shows up on the last couple of radar frames.

Right now in Shawnee, partly cloudy with a shelf cloud and frequent to almost continuous thunder. I drove from 24th and Southwest Boulevard, where we ate Father's Day dinner, back to my house and it went from sunny to the present conditions. Nothing severe showing up on radar. The cold front is also right on top of us.
BTW, the storms that went through here earlier today are producing large hail and damaging winds in southwest Missouri

wow that cell just south of maysville looks monstrous!

A storm that was headed SE of Joplin just turned and is headed NE with half dollar hail and over 70 mph wind. Weird. When my weather bug went off with that info, I thought Oops! someone made a mistake. It's heading SE. Nope it changed. Dogs are freaking out. Guess I should listen to them.

Wow, its looking pretty nasty here in branson, I think we will head back to the hotel for a while.

i'm hearing thunder here in SOKCMO.

I just heard a rumble up near the Shoal Creek area in the northland.

"A beautiful and intense little cell just popped up in eastern Wyandotte county - aimed right for the southern half of the metro loop... "

I had a feeling something was going to happen. I was grill'n for Father's Day and the humidity rushed back in.  Nothing like this morning, but definitely noticable.  Lots of thunder right now.  

Thundering in OP.

a very nice thundershower just materialized in the Mission/Roeland Park area.  Nothing major for once, just rain and a bit of thunder.

I wonder why Joplin isn't under severe thunderstorm warning. It looks nasty on radar and outside. Guess I should move away from sliding glass doors, huh?

I'm hearing thunder, but nothing showing on ESP

Neighbor is out mowing and we have thunder in the area. It looks dark to our SE and moving this way. People amaze me.

looks like that monstrous cell is on a direct course with us in chillicothe. According to my grlevel3 radar it has reports of 1.75" hail with it! wow.

Luther, sorry about your hometown.  That is were we stop to stretch when we go to sw kansas.  3 yrs ago we stopped so my step-daughter could see the well, I am glad we did.  We stopped in january and the destruction was still gut-wrenching.  Laura  

Stay safe lorie, don't go out and mow hahaha

The tstorm cell that is heading for me here in Lee's Summit popped up so quickly. One minute there was just about nothing on the radar and 15 minutes later I was hearing thunder. Geesh
Audra

speaking of that cell it just became severe warned and will be here by 7:30. with golfball sized hail! yikes!

Randy, where is here?

tornado warning to the SE of us. at one point it was headed in this direction but it's not now....i think

It's raining here in Lee's Summit.
Audra

Grumpyred -

I hear that a lot from folks.  I guess it is a good stopping point while traveling on 54.. I met all sorts of cool and odd folks traveling that would stop in for gas or to see the Big Well.  I was there last month and it still hits me the same way.  Nothing will ever be as it was.  But, the townfolks are moving along and getting back to their lives.  

Shameless plug... tonight on Planet Green (226 on Time Warner), the debut show of the 13 part series starts on the rebuilding of the town. I'm anxious to see how it is portrayed.

weatherfreak01,

chillicothe

.34 inches today at 65th & State Avenue

Thanks Randy.
Audra

looks like the hail core is on a direct course for my house! lol. i better take my laptop inside.

pea sized hail hitting my deck.

Got inside in the nick of time, Randy.

and just like that its over.

Wow, all of the storms so far have dodged branson

I have the Celtics/Lakers game on and until two minutes ago they had a severe thunderstorm warning out for Carroll County. We got very heavy rain and hail for about ten minutes then the storm exited and skies turned partly cloudy.

man i feel like deja vue all over again. another cell firing up just south of maysville(just like last time.)

8:54pm, Golfball size hail 3 miles north of Leavenworth, raining lightly no wind

we had nickel sized hail at 850pm that lasted for 5 minutes up on the west side of leavenworth thought I would pass that report to the weather team.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 9:15PM.

Anyone that has already been in the storm, can you tell me what to expect from the cell heading towards Kansas City North/Liberty?  This lightening is getting really impressive...and not in a good way.

Emmy,
All we got here was a quick burst of hail, some thunder and lightening, was over before it got started good.

Thanks, Bootz.  The lightening is getting pretty intense.

Gary,

I missed the news today...could you update the website so I could see the 7 day?  I need to see what Tuesday is going to be like for my Worlds of Fun day.  I hope it is still going to be in the 70's!

We had golf ball size hail for about 10 minutes here in Leavenworth.  Grabbed a few and in freezer, will send pictures.

lvsnow,

Did you really!?!  Is everything you own damaged like no other?  I hope everybody is ok.  Sorry to here that you had hail that big!

Jacob

sexy storm here in leavenworth, drove through some golfball size hail, and some nice structure.

Buddy of mine sent pics of golfball size hail.

I sent the weather team pictures of hail measuring 2.5". Weird storm

Just had a nice hail storm here off of 291/Cookingham....marble size hail for about 3-5 minutes straight.

we just had BIG hail south of kearney. most golf ball size, some were a little bigger!!

just measured it 2 inch hail!!

My God am I glad I live in Lee's Summit!

Wow, here off 291 and Stark, didn't quite get golf ball size, but definitely marble and bigger.  Started hailing before it even started raining, hailed for what seemed like forever, then rain.  While it was coming down, the street and driveways were covered, but that quickly melted.  There is a bunch in the grass, and our deck is partly covered.

So...we've only owned a home for a year and a half...how do you know when hail is big and hard enough to call your insurance agent?

Emmysmom, go by when your neighbors are calling their insurance agent and getting new roofs.

If you see a bunch of people in your neighbornood getting new roofs that's a big sign!  and it's also not too late.

Emmysmom-

Generally it takes Golfball size to start causing some serious damage, and of course anything larger then that can cause real problems. If you had marble size hail, no need to contact your insurance agent.

Is it going to storm any mORE tonght?  or can I get some sleep!

Oh yeah we had .17 today here at 130th and State Avenue in KCK today and the highest wind gust today with the storms was 24MPH. Much better then the 90+ they were calling for.

Bryan

Here's another thing I heard in Texas...where it hailed animals to death...if it's hailing hard enough to dent your car, do not go out, because it's hailing hard enough to kill you in the head.

Sometimes storms just crack me up.  25 minutes ago it was hailing small cats and dogs, now I see the moon, stars, and a very annoying, noisey cricket (4 days running) right outside my window.  I wish the hail would have hit him.

Our deck still has several pockets of hail on it, as does the lawn.  Interesting...  Is this it for the storms up here, then?

We want to thank Gary and others on this blog for helping us understand and to stay safe in this crazy weather. We are in a 40ft RV staying from Lees Summit, Nevada, Ottawa and Clinton Lake hanging around until the National SkillsUSA in KC. We have relied heavily on the current information here. We have nothing as helpful as this blog in California (nor do we have this weather). Keep up the good work.

look at this!!

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This could quite possibly rank as one of my favorite comments I've read on this blog in the years I've been perusing it...particularly the closing line:

KellyHightower said: "Here's another thing I heard in Texas...where it hailed animals to death...if it's hailing hard enough to dent your car, do not go out, because it's hailing hard enough to kill you in the head."

lol i agree notes. thats priceless

the spc had a mesoscale discussion about north central ks and east central ks for large hail with elevated convection later on tonite.

Hi all! who's still around? anybody? probly not?

Well another wild weather day in St. Joe, this morning we had the storms roll through and even though they did weaken, they still brought strong north winds, heavy rain, and very impressive clouds as the main gust front approached. I watched as a medium sized limb fell and missed one of our vehicles by inches. For a time 3000 people were without power here in St. Joe, we also lost other old limbs that broke in the storm a week ago but were still hanging in the tree.  Mother nature has been doing ALOT of pruning here in St. Joe lately!!

wow nick. we haven't had hardly any pruning done at all down here in So KC MO. just a lot of ponding=)

When me and my mother were coming home from the store, we could see frequent lightning out to the east.  I believe we were looking at the storm that was in the next county over, at the time.  It was pretty cool, seeing lightning in one half of the sky, and a practically full moon in the other.


-Nicoleoleoleoleole  8]

Nicole that's always a neat phenomenon to see. sometimes when you are that far away from a thunderstorm you can see "sprites" or "jets" emit from the top of a thunderstorm cloud which shoot miles into our atmosphere, and those are created by lightning, I for one have never seen it myself but if you go on you tube and look for "Sprites" I'm sure you'll find something it's pretty incredible.