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T-Storm watch until midnight.

Hi,
I was wondering what the weather is going to be like at the Lake starting tomorrow afternoon & evening and especially Friday during the day. We are going camping Thurs nite and canoeing on Friday..we have our fingers crossed for good weather

Had a very brief thunderstorm here at 68th and leavenworth rd in kck. Very heavy rain and some dime size hail. It has already ended. I sure hope we get more rain.

-Rodney

Gary,

I just filed for nickle size hail lasting approx 1-2 minutes at 1824 Local, from 9/45 HWY's in Parkville...the house!

Nothing really major yet.

Jeff

Gary,

Just had a hail storm whip through 64th St & I-29.  Heavy rain with hail up to 1 3/4 inches!

Joel

It'd  be nice to get a nice loud storm tonight that produced a lot of rain.

Gary-

NOAA radio went off with the TStorm warning at 1824, said large hail near Gladstone at 1840.  At 1838, we started getting steady pea to marble sized hail just off 169 near North Broadway, and then some hail between 3/4 inch and ONE inch started falling.  Last for about 4-5 mins, followed by very heavy rain, look like about 1/4 inch in just 5 mins.  Now at 1844, it's just drizzling.  

As Garys (Lezak and England) say, "we'll keep ya informed...."

Pat & Pat
(Those old Duncan / Marlow / Lawton natives...)

6:55PM downpour very hard 152 and 435 in the northland

Just as you showed the radar indicating rain over Wyandotte County, I looked outside.. sun's shining brightly but it is raining.

Where is most likely area for heavy rain?

Roofers are still outside working! Hope they get done before that storm in Coffey County makes it to La Cygne. Looks like it is tracking due west.

heavy rain in Liberty w/pea sized hail...oh no...it's going to tear up my petunias!

I meant due East. Whoops

6:58PM its over, dumped .10 of an inch in three minutes - pretty good hard rain

Raining pretty hard with strong winds and lots of hail at N Tullis and NE 76th Street near Shoal Creek.  Some of the hail was slightly bigger than a quarter, but most was about pea-sized.

Any severe threat other than hail expected tonight?

Thanks

dime sized hail at the fort...its over now though....second time we got hail today(quarter sized this morning).

probably in the big cell right behind jrhampton, I had every bit of 1 3/4" to 2" hail just north of 169 & Englewood.  There was about every different size hail mixed in when that storm hit and the hail probably went in little cycles for a good 10 minutes.

HEYO ALL!!!

sorry havent on very much at all!


just checking in during severe weather times! Ive been kinda busy and the weather has been nice, so ive been enjoying it the past couple of days. I hope we get some rain tonite! My strawberry plants arent doing very well :(.

Gary, Jeremy, Brett and the team: KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK!

my weather radio is going off again! lol

we had nickel to quarter size hail on the west side of leavenworth shortly after 7pm I havent checked the rain gauge yet.

rain is just light sprinkles now...we got 1/2 inch in about 5 minutes!

Anymore storms to develop after this round? I know we are in a watch until Midnight, but that includes all the counties to the south and east. So I'm wondering if the heavy rain threat ends after this batch until tomorrow for round 2.

We arent having any threat of tornados tonight are we?

had some big hail here at 68th and 169.  I usually hide from these storms so I have never seen hail that big!  Try to take pics soon.  Hope there is not a threat for tornados.
Becky

Yikes, Overbrook KS in Franklin County is reporting half dollar size hail!

We just had some marble sized hail here at 75th and I-35.

55th and pflumm, Shawnee: quarter to golfball sized hail and strong high-level rotation at 7:05PM. The storm has now moved off to the east. I don't know about upper-level conditions and the composition of the storm, but it sure looked pretty threatening. We didn't have a tornado warning, so I'm assuming there's no immediate tornado threat.
More storms out west dropping quarter-sized hail. We're probably not out of the woods yet.

  JeriCorrell said:
Wow, can any Shawnee folks see that big round cloud with the lowered center? Cool!
July 2, 2008 6:59 PM  
  JeriCorrell said:
Ok that thing is rotating! Gary I am uploading a picture to you in email of it.
July 2, 2008 7:09 PM  

2 1/2 inch diameter hail in shawnee about 10 minutes ago.  Biggest I've ever seen in person.  Neighboors cars look terrible.  Also got some footage of some big time rotation in the clouds after the storm passed.

Siegel, I took a picture of that cloud as it formed over Shawnee. I sent it to Gary but anyone who wants to see it can see it.

.32 rain on west side of leavenworth from the storm that lasted 15 minutes.

Man this is kinda scary...

whoa becky what size?

i havent seen big hail in FOREVER... lol

post a link to the picture--my husband was at SMP and Monticello and saw it and called me, but at the time noone was reporting anything, so I told him it was probably scud (he couldn't tell if it was rotating)

Jeffro, where in Shawnee?

Where is the weather team? I think a break needs to made into the "Baby" program.

As of late... here in south leawood, skies are darkening to the north and northeast...

weve had about three raidrops and quite some thunder...

weatherdude,
I have not measured it yet.  It is in the freezer so I can show my hubby when he gets here.  It had to be close to if not half dollar size.  I have dents in my car and chips in my windshield.  I usually hide from these storms so I have never seen hail this big! :)

Yea I wouldnt mind a break in either...

I can't figure out what direction this stuff is moving...I'm in Belton and watching weather underground, one second it looks like we are about to get it and then the next second it doesn't...

Bewild, I'm so sorry you got that awful hail. Mother nature is destructive sometimes and other times can be beautiful. Asked hubby to bring the truck into the barn. I hope you have insurance to fix your car. Might want to have your roof looked at too.

STacy I sent it to9 you, can you link it ? I don't know how

Are these storms firing up in advance of the cold front and is that why it is creating so much hail? Where is HailJohnson at???

Farmgirl,
Yea the only think that stinks about that is the fact of making a claim makes your insurance go up.  Do you know if we have a threat of tornados tonight?  Hopefully not.  Storming its butt off here again.  Hopefully no more big hail!

Jeri
do you have a flickr acct?  If you do you can upload it to a folder there and then link it that way.  that's how I'm displaying mine for now.
www.flickr.com/photos/momminatorkck

Pingpong to golfball size hail 2 miles South of Reno. Heavy rain. Gusty wind, but not severe. I'll email a photo.

http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll210/jcorrell/?action=tags&current=Shawnee%2C%207-02-08
Try that

raining hard here again...hope there's no more hail

be nice if I could see what you all were seein.

well, im about to leave harrisonville for chillicothe, hopin we dont hit some of those big hail storms. i have my laptop so maybe if i get an oppurtunity i'll let you know what i experience. i just saw you gary! lol.

jeri, that photo is so cool

there ya go Jeri.. i saw a very similar cloud west of me as well.  But the really really weird thing is that the upper layer of clouds didnt' seem to be moving at all. Then a but further west and somewhat south the sun was breaking thru the clouds.. wish i didnt' have those darn power lines in the way.. I would have had a wonderful shot.  Oh well, I'll catch another one sometime soon.

VERY windy here at 68th and 129.  Scaring the crap out of me.  Trying to hide from all the windows so I dont have to see it.   A whole lot of rain also.
Becky

Okay.. strange thing happened.  We were at Cici's pizza on North Oak and Vivion.  I took video of it, but there were TONS of LOW LOW clouds.  You could see the clouds rotating a bit around it and then the clouds were pulled up into it.  

What was I seeing?   Just the updraft where the hail was forming? I took a short video of it, but my mother and I both thought we were seeing something form that we really didn't want to see.

Jeri - *great* shot of the storm!!  Classic structure...isn't it beautiful?!?

What a wacky day for forecasting.  The overnight low was around 73 at KMCI, but then the morning convection moved in, dropped 0.29" and dropped the temp to 69 for the official low.  

Then the persistent cloudcover kept temps around the airport in the upper-70s to low-80s all day right up until just the last couple of hours.  

The official high at KMCI shot up to 87 at the last minute.

Jeri, you saw that outside your house just a few minutes ago?

Jeri,
I got pictures of that too! It was really cool! And strange at the same time. It felt like there should have been a warning or something on that. I sure haven't seen anything like that before.

I haven't had a chance to look at my pictures yet, but I will send them to Gary too.

David

I wish I had taken more but it got behind that tree and I couldn't see it as clearly. I did see scud seeming to be pulled in. Then my ex called said everyone over at the ballfields on Johnson Drive were looking at it and getting very worried. Nothing happened but no more saying this will be a PPS (particularly pitiful situation).

lol i feel left out... i have yet to see anything but like dark blue clouds to my north and northeast...

and wow jeri! thats awesome!

Kansas City Kansas (1 mile north of 47th and Quivira) had 2 inch hail. Our flag pole was damaged. Some incredible pics though.

Bewild I don't think there is much of a tornado threat at all from what I have seen.  SPC doesn't even have us in the 2% and our probabilities are low.  Sorry you got the big hail though. :(

Hail it was a little after 7pm. I was standing on a kitchen chair on my deck hoping my batteries were not dead, snapping that pic as it formed. Even though I've been with Sean a few times, I am still at that "Look look what I see! " stage LOL

We just got home from the ballfields at 87th and Renner in Lenexa after being told to get the heck out of there due to that big round cloud above us.  I took some pictures and will try to figure out how to post them.  That cloud was very impressive!!

Woo hoo, heavy rain at KCI on the day I predicted 1.1"!!

Man, if radar trends are any indication, KMCI is finally getting drenched this time around...should be interesting to see the total for the hour...

RDub - Way to go!!

This morning, KMCI got 0.29"...this last hour, they got another 0.74"...total for the day so far:  1.03"!  

More is falling which will likely run over 1.1", but since yours is the highest total for the day, you'll finish with the best precip forecast for the day...and perhaps the entire event/week...well done!

well I'm glad you saw something exciting It's clear to me now that I'm not going to see anything. the storms merged all together right over downtown and aren't going to hit me. I hate the location that i'm in.

I know we are concentrating on storms in the metro but it appears storms are now firing along the cold front in northeast kansas and northern missouri these storms will drift toward us from the north later this evening.

1954 hours - Just east of 169 along North Broadway and NW 71st Terrace....

Extremely windy and heavy rain...wind is pushing rain and small hail sideways, looks like a snowstorm.  Weather Underground Nexrad showed a "tornado vortex"  moving southeastwardly down I-29 towards Northmoor...but NOAA radio hasn't alerted since Severe TStorm Warning 20 mins ago.  I'd say wind has gusted over 60 to 70 mph easily, as an example, it moved my Sunbeam Grillmaster BBQ (has wheels on one end only, weighs about 50 pounds) a full SIX feet across the back deck in a southwestward direction - the wind was coming out of the Northeast.  NOAA just issued FFlood Warning at 1955, and we've had about 2 inches of rain so far according to gauge.

The trees are talking and the munchins are running around....

Pat and Pat

Pea to Dime size hail just fell in southern Lansing KS. Lasted about 5 mins

Whoops forgot my link to the pictures:

http://www.judycarne.com/hail.html

Looks like Greenwood is south of the action tonight. I could use the rain, my grass looks a little stressed.

it rained really hard on us and made us really sad because we had toleave  the warped tour before seeing my favorite band! :(

Hail, maybe next severe season we can trade. I swear my part of Lenexa seemed so calm and now that I'm in Shawnee I watch all kind of storms and clouds roll through. Then again, maybe it's because the trees are not tall enough to occlude my view like tha mature ones at the old house so I nver saw it coming.

The cloud reported around 7:05PM only had upper-level rotation. With any lowering, they would have issued a warning.
The NWS just reported baseball sized hail in Shawnee of all places. I'm in northern Shawnee and the hail I got about 15 minutes ago (7:50PM) was penny-sized.
A warning was out earlier for downtown Kansas City with tennis-ball sized hail possible. If any reports of damage surface, please let me know.

WOW...I just went out & checked & we have 1.60 inches of rain since 6:45!!  Incredible!

Trees blowing extremely hair.... pee to nickle sized hail and it's completely dark otuside.. has been for awhile.

I will confess, when I made the forecast (45 days ago) I was expecting most of it to fall on Thursday morning, even though I said "Wednesday night"...it looks like I got lucky with early rain.

Ok, I need the next line of storms to miss KCI...I have 0" forecast for 7/3/08.

And now, a temporary end to the notion of "drying out"? Looks like we'll all be mowing for a while longer.

Not much happening here in NW Olathe.  Just a little bit of rain.

Hurricane force winds here in Raytown.  Torrential rain too but no hail yet.

hard not hair.  Still extremely dark.. Hail has stopped the winds are almost calm..... strange.  North Kansas City is my current location near NKCHS

Well we got through 30 minutes of the swim meet (in LS), then they canceled it due to lightning.  Lots of thunder & lightning but still light rain here.

judging by the radar... it seems the storms are showing no signs of moving in our direction... is this the only chance of rain for the evening?

now at 8:15 I'm up to an even 2 inches...this is coming down so hard & heavy!!

Here are the pictures I took earlier of the clouds at 87th and Renner:

http://picasaweb.google.com/minomdeplume/20080702_Clouds

I just drove down from north of the river back to Fairway and had a monsoon the entire way. Sheets upon sheets of rain were coming down and many of the roads were quite flooded. At home now and it is still coming down quite heavily with quite a bit of lightning also. Never saw any hail though. I had been planning to mow the yard tomorrow morning but looks like it will be a giant mudpuddle so that will have to wait until friday. Oh well. I am glad to have the rain since my yard was just beginning to need it. I still have not watered a single time this year and it has needed mowing at least once a week. Enjoy the rain.

Bewild, Haven't heard any mention of Tornados for tonight. NOAA just says large hail and damaging winds. Like it always says.

That cell in Franklin county just went poof went it got to Linn County. Glad too cause the roofers are still working! Poor guys. They still have my chicken house to re-roof. And I can see lightening now. Wish I spoke spanish, I'd tell them they can go home and come back tomorrow since the house is almost done. The Chickens can wait.

Flash Flood warning in Clay county

I bet I Drive home and nothing has happened there, I'm about to do it anyway.. I need to get my son to bed.

Siegel, that doesn't qualify as lowering when you look at LadyJayhawk's pics? That's exactly what we saw here.

it has been raining very hard now for 2 hours.  I have flooding in my side yard. It doesnt look to be ending anytime soon...very concerned.

Pics from Shawnee tonight:

mark, you did not drive through a monsoon, you drove through a deluge. a monsoon is a seasonal wind shift. =D

woops.  Ok, here are the pics.  BIG Hail!

http://s315.photobucket.com/albums/ll470/jeffro3311/

hmmm i hope eveyone is ok, be careful driving... the rain is just sooo close! yet so far...

anyone know if this is our only chance of rain for tonite? i wood hate for u guys getting pounded to get more, but we need it! lol

stay safe :D

lol hail...thx for the clarification

Where in Shawnee was that hail, Jeffro?

Cold front storms are getting going severe thunderstorm expected in st joseph after 9pm they are heading toward kc,let's see how strong they will be when they are here they might not be that strong because we already have had thunderstorms.

You sure were lucky those hail stone landed right next to a tape measure.  You should play the lottery.

Holy Crap Jeffro!  I am glad that the hail here wasnt that big!

Rain and thunder has started up again on K-7 and 75th.

Lots of wind here in Grain Valley..by far the worst storm we've had this year

Our yard is a lake and the pool is about to overflow here on the west side of Parkville.

Jeffro, you sure did have large hailstones! Hope we don't get any! No more storm damage!!! Sure wish we would get out of this crazy severe weather pattern. I think I'm getting an ulcer from it.

kinda an interesting question... what is causing these storms to trail over downtown?

were are getting pounded up here in Shoal Creek

insane amount of rain here in leavenworth, street flooding going on.

I would say 3 inches at the very least fell in the past hour and a half.

I am serious to everyone out there right now!  DO NOT GO OUT!   I HAD to drive home.  I almost flooded out my car four times.  You couldn't even see the water.  I would turn around go another way, and I would get stuck again.  Finally I made it home.  I would be especially cautious if you are in the North Kansas City area.  Highway 9 heading towards riverside right under the railroad tracks is very very flooded.  I barely made it through there, and only kept going because I couldn't turn around.

DO NOT GO OUT!  IT IS NOT SAFE!

Whoa!  Did anyone see that wicked U-shaped lightning bolt???

New blog

jonkleinow,
We are just north of the intersection of Johnson and Neiman.  We have some minor roof damage, but not nearly as bad as some of our neighbors cars look!

And here I sit in LS with lots of thunder and lightening but no rain to speak of...I  am, however, very happy we didn't see the hail, but a bit of rain would have made the kids next door go inside instead of shooting off fireworks.  With the storm, the loud booms make me jump...not sure if it's a firecracker or thunder!

3.75 inches of rain since 6:45 at 96th and N. Oak.

Outflow boundary just moved through...aprox 7 miles south of Pleasant Hill. No rain yet, temps dropped 8 degrees just like that (snapping my fingers). Timing's off tonight trying to photograph the lightning, too. 15 second exposures, and the lightning flashes either before I open the shutter or right after. Dang.

ok Gary...now I'm up to 2  1/2 inches...water is pouring in every crack or line in my basement & the yard is just puddles.  When are these going to stop?

Not a single drop of rain here in drexel, still kids out shooting fireworks, a little rain wouldn't hurt, but I doubt we get any. Guess I will start to pack for las vegas.

As BoiseState said, we have 3.3 inches so far here in Shoal Creek. It's still coming down pretty hard.  We had hail that was slightly larger than a quarter around 6:45 tonight.

Jeffro, thanks. I live near SMNW off 67th and Bradshaw and have a van parked outside I'm trying to sell. I wonder if I'll just get it totaled instead...

what a lightening show we are getting here. no rain yet hoping we get included in another batch.

In Oak Grove we took shelter in the basement briefly after we witnessed the wind pick up our 8 foot trampoline and toss it over a six-foot high fence in our back yard.
Fortunately it didn't hit the fence on the way out of the yard. The power went out for a half hour and just came back on. The rain was heavy for about 20 minutes, but we just have light rain now.

Gary and all-   As of 2200 hours......UPDATE from KC North

Just back in from helping our son with water getting into his basement and garage.
Rain Gauge on our back porch shows 4.3 inches of rain since about 1830, but I'm betting about 3 inches or more of of that total came between 2015 and 2130!  We're at north Broadway and NW 71st Terrace in Kansas City North (west edge of "Happy Rock" - Gladstone).

About that "Tornado Vortex Signature" I mentioned in an earlier blog entry -- it would be interesting to be able to go back on the tapes and see what happened to that cell ... it was coming right down I-29 from Barry Road towards the I635 Jct and Northmoor, the storm table on the radar site showed about a 46,000 ft top on it, with 100 percent chance of hail, 50 percent chance of severe hail.  I've watched many of these "signatures" on the nexrad drop down to the next lower levels of storms as they went on in duration, BUT THIS ONE SEEMED TO JUST FALL APART into a blotch of deep red, with no "storm cell" indicated on the nexrad.  This happened in all of maybe 10 mins between about 1945 and 1955.  Would this be an indication that the storm just "collapsed" and left nothing but heavy rain?  Very interesting sight for me.

Gotta go run the railroad now....hoping we don't lose our main tracks between Marceline and Mendon like we did last weekend for a couple of days!

Pat and Pat,
the transplanted Okies...