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what do I think. I think the MCS should backbuild and hit my apartment. I thought the blog could use an extra 2 cents. Others will think differently.

Does anyone know where can I purchase the 4" rain gauge that COCORAHS is recommending for reporting rain fall? $8.00 shipping to my location is kinda high.

looks to me that what is north of st jo is heading south...

Downpouring west of ottawa, lost satellite (again)

Hope we don't lose satellite. Watching World Trade Center movie.

Lot of thunder and lightening up here.  Was a lot worse an hour ago (heavy rain with a tiny bit of hail), but looks like we're set to go again.  

Gary-just got a quick quarter inch in Liberty & the rain is slowing down now.

wind/rain let up...still raining, but checked gauge and there is 1inch

Hi, Gary. Emma MO has received .7" so far and it looks now like a band of heavy rainfall still is pointing at us. Most of the farmers around here have all their corn in but beans are a different story. With this much water, it may be the middle of next week before they can get into some of their fields again. Also, I was on MO 23 north of Knob Noster a while ago and there was significant flash flooding with at least three deep bands of moving water south of the Blackwater Bottoms. Wind was strong and hail between penny and nickel size, as well as I could tell from the safety of my car.

Walt Snyder

1.2" 3 miles north of Odessa as of 7:20.  2.0" as of 7:20 3 south of Orrick.

Thanks,
Scott

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Thanks for the updates!

Gary

Just a light shower came thru and when I checked the rain gauge it had just a trace in it in Kingsville.

Just got home from St. Joseph, WOW it was raining VERY HARD on I-29 just south of town.

1.5" in Kearney

If this is what you mean by more thunderstorms near 4AM, I am positive I will sleep through it.

http://ruc.noaa.gov/disp2.cgi?/w3/rapb/plots_20km_oper/.//+sa5_ppt+am+09

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There is a strong line of thunderstorms moving our way from southeast Nebraska.

 

Gary

what's up with this, this... twice since I got home the power has gone off/on.  Just enough to mess up the clocks.  sheesh, no wind, no rain or lightening to speak of, it's barely sprinkling outside.

tornado warning for warsaw

2 miles west of Smithville: 0.5" rainfall.  Dark clouds and a rainbow off to the east.

Sorry, central Benton county - think it's gone by Warsaw, or downgraded to t-storm warning?  Can't tell exactly, anyway, heads up anyone down there.

Is the complex of storms that are on the East side of Nebraska what will come into KC or the ones way out in Western Nebraska?

when will the strong thunderstorms from Nebraska get here?

.9 inches in drexel, raining lightly with a double rainbow to the southeast.

Thanks A Dogg. Just walked out on the front porch and I can see the double rainbow too. Beautiful!

Here in Liberty we watched the storm go all around.  I live on Southeast side and we ended up with 1/2".  Not that I want 3" or 4" but this pattern is really frustrating!

I am loading video my son took from our house in Sibley.  He was looking to the south towards Buckner.  My brother-in-law was in Buckner at the same time and describes seeing something the same.   What do you think it was.  I guess there was huge hail and SEVERE winds.  It came through Napoleon a little later where I was at the time and we were afraid the windows would break from the hail and wind. After the storm all the homes and cars looked like they had been painted with leaves. The ground was covered in hail and as it melted looked like an ice storm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzlZw6NZSOY Thanks, Audrey

That definetly looked like a lowering of the clouds to me, but I have no idea if they were wall clouds or maybe shelf clouds?

The clouds are wierd here between Lee's Summit and Lake Lotawana. I am watching them move SW. Very strange.
Audra

Bulldog, that was great video, and creepy!  Was it rotating, couldn't tell from the video, but great job catching that.  Reminded me of the tornado video Gary had a few days ago.

OK 0.12 outside McLouth, KS.  No hail, no lightening and the highest wind gust was 28.  Sure did get chilly after the rain ended.

My son will be VERY proud of himself! Thank you.  BYW this was around 5pm I think.

We just spent 30 fun-filled minutes in the basement here, north of Warsaw.  A tornado was spotted (so said the NOAA weather radio) about 5 miles away.  It has rained buckets full, haven't been able to go outside yet to check the rain gauge.

looks like those storms in nebraska are going to follow the missouri river basin to kc if they hold together.

I saw the same thing from Grain Valley looking north towards Buckner at around 5.  Was that the same time?  I never saw any rotation so I figured it was just scud clouds.

what are scud clouds?

Those storms coming out of Neb. look like they will be here before midnight.

Wind has really picked up here in La Cygne... but no storms. Is this the outflow from the storms off to the East?

http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img6275rr9.jpg

That is the photo I took from N Grain Valley, it had lots of lift going into that lowering cloud.

Updating Emma, MO: It looks like we're not going to get much before the 10 o'clock news, so I'll post now. We've picked up an additional .98" since 7 p.m. for a grand (sub?) total of 1.75". I'm a pessimist, so I dumped my rain gauge in anticipation of more unneeded rain later.

The creeks around here have stabilized but the Blackwater Bottoms on MO 23 south of Concordia are close to impassable already. No more hail to report, but some of the lightning between 7 and 8 was impressive.

Walt Snyder

A fun evening in St. Joe, it started around three o'clock when the first area of storms fired up around us, while my house missed the very heavy stuff in that round I got to see the bottom of a building thunderstorm as I was tacking a walk, when I started my walk it was just the dark underside of a large cumulus cloud it seemed, but as time passed it got larger and larger and as I was heading back home I experienced some large rain drops from the underside of the newly developing storm and saw a rain shaft just to my south and east with some thunder.  But the main action for the evening was during and just after the 6 p.m. newscast, as out flow from an area of storms in northern Missouri met up with out flow from an MCS in east Ks. as the two out flows merged storms fired up west to east right over St. Joseph.  as the storms were forming you once again could see the undersides of the large cumulus forming with very neat features formed by the rising air along the converging outflows, it really was cool to "see" what radar was showing with the forming storms on the radar along the convergence as the clouds to my south were moving northeast, while I could tell clouds to my northeast were trying to move southwest and in the middle of that you could see the neat lowering features as the rain shafts formed to my north and east and moved in. Then we got POUNDED with very heavy rain.  Now we have had cool easterly outflow and there is an area of storms trying to come in from the northwest, it will be interesting to see how long they hold together, the cool air might kill them.

the tstorms are rolling down I-29 buit we are loosing the pink and dark reds in the radar and they are elonggating to the west the heating of the day is now gone and i think we will miss the real heavy stuff.....well i mean its dying out....yes ity will rain but 125 miles north in omaha it has turned yellow from red and orange and pink.....drifting east and souith and soutwest as well.