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figures you post a new blog just as i type a response in the last one:

6-8" may be a little extreme...

here is the nws up to date rainfall estimates:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=EAX&product=NTP&overlay=11101111&loop=yes

this is as of 0630...and it paints a widespread 2-3" around the eastern kc metro area with a couple ISOLATED 4" spots...largest near olathe...granted thats a lot more than one is used to seeing, but 2-4" is a lot different than 6-8".  

i thought this was heading toward the west/northwest side of the city gary! what happened?

looks like the rain is about done for my area, once it stops i will drop off my total.

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Murph,

I think you will be a bit surprised when the totals come in.  Johnson County Executive Airport is already near 6 inches of rain, and it is falling heavily right now.  I will get the totals  into the blog, and post the estimated rainfall amounts after one more hour goes by.

Gary

Paola--1.79" just the right amount, we don't need anymore, I'm ready for sunshine please.  Just in from walking Windy, rain was pretty heavy at 4:30 but by 5:45 it was just a light drizzle when we headed out and all finished by the time we got home at 6:45.  Have a great day Gary!
--deb

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Deb,

Thank you for the Paola total!  Have a great day.

Gary

Johnson County Executive Airport:  5.45" (As of 5:50 AM) isn'r correct, for this it is 5.01" of rain! Last time i check the radar estimates for a big storm olathe got 20". I don't trust the radar's for rainfall anymore.

So 5.01" of Rain at Jhonson Count Exeuctive Airport as of 6:30.

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I live just northeast of there, and I have had nearly 6 inches of rain, so these totals are correct!

Gary

still coming down hard...2.10 inches in SE LSMO

GOOD amount of rain

My gauge with a 6" capacity is overflowing at 161st & Mur-Len in Olathe.

I can confirm the total for LS.....3.58 here in central LS

135th and Quivira 5 1/2 inches as of 7:00AM

Johnson County Executive Airport:  5.45" (As of 5:50 AM) isn'r correct, for this it is 5.01" of rain! Last time i check the radar estimates for a big storm olathe got 20". I don't trust the radar's for rainfall anymore.

So 5.01" of Rain at Jhonson Count Exeuctive Airport as of 6:30.

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I live just northeast of there, and I have had nearly 6 inches of rain, so these totals are correct!

Gary
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sorry ;)

...well, just as it was about to end, we got a little downpour going...nothing like what you guys S and SE have seen, but its been rather light up here, so its nice that a little more is getting squeezed out.  i want to peek at my rain gauge...but i will refrain until its over.

right now KCI is at .79" for the whole event...

...as i am typing this we are now getting the heaviest rain we have had the past 24hrs.  its funny, we are on the extreme edge of the rainshield, but its coming down heaviest now..

Gary,

I just posted a rainfall total on the previous blog...in case you didn't see it...3.95 inches of rain at my house in SW Grain Valley and still coming down when I left for work at 6:00. I'm sure by the time I get home tonight it will be 5 inches or more!!WOW!!!

Jeff

Rain guage overflowed at 5.5" south of the Stadium.

gary:

119th & state line: 6.02" (as of 7:00 a.m.)

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Thank you for the report!

Gary

if you get trapped in a viechal, this is what you do! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKktJPBDCVQ&feature=related

2.70 so far for La Cygne.

4.3" as of 7:40 am 3 miles North of Odessa.  2.05" fell in approximately 45 minutes last night from 9:15 to 10:00.  It is still raining nicely.

Thanks,
Scott

.75 inches 3 miles west of Leavenworth

I had 3.45" near College and Pflumm @ 7am and it's still raining.  I honestly thought some neighbor kid had dumped water in there, because I was shocked to see that much rain.  WOW this is a tropical storm indeed.

Morning Gary.

Per Melissa - as of 0715 we have had 4.50 inches of rain in Grandview.   Still raining at this time.    I will send a final total once I get home from work this afternoon around 3 pm

WOW lots of rain...

Any damage back home from the earthquake yesterday?

Bill

I recorded 1.68 so far here at 130th and State Avenue. Most of this occured from 2am until 6am.

Bryan

I live Northern Lee's Summit pretty close to the new Bass Pro Shop not to far from the Little Blue River.  Rainfall estimates on radar say around 3 inches, but my rain gauge in my backyard off my deck says 4.8" as of 7:49am.

Hans

Gary and all......

What a night! I made sure my rain gauge was empty at around 8:00pm last night, just before is started sprinkling. The heavy rain didn't seem to start until 10:30pm or 11:00pm.... and it rained all night...

Whe I went out to walk the dogs at 6:00am this morning... I had 4.90" in my rain gauge. I expect it to reach 5" + if it rains any more this morning or later today.

Well Hello Dolly !!!

This is Suburban Sam reporting from 92nd Terrace and Holmes Road in South Kansas City!

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Thanks for the report Suburban Sam!

Gary

1.33" in Shawnee as of 7am this morning... and I thought that *I* had gotten a lot of rain... sheesh!

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Yeah, yesterday we would have said "wow" to 1.33".  But, not today.  You still ended up with a nice soaking.

Gary

The garbage can is half full, 2 tubular gauges are full, and my electronic gauge on the deck reads 9.3" this morning at 6:15 am.  Won't need to water the plants !

Unbelievable, 8 A.M. in Olathe at 159th and Ridgeview  6.38 inches of rain!!!  WOW!!

Olathe, 119th & Pflumm, 3.42".  We got a call in the middle of the night that Indian Creek was out of its banks and the water was halfway up the parking lot to our church.

2.3" of rain at I-35 & Brighton in the northland at 6am.

Are you around Braysmama?  You have a rain gauge don't you?  How much did we get in Kingsville?  When I watched the weather at 6:00 this morning, they just showed Knob Noster at .95 - it was raining,, but not hard. By the time I left and all the way in to work it just POURED so I know we got more than that inch, but wondered if you measured it?  

Where does everyone get rain gauges?  Does Walmart have them?  And where do I put it?  We have a lot of giant trees that overhang most of the place -- but I don't want to stick it in the middle of the yard where my husband will kill it with the mower!  How big are they?  Thanks! Laura

3.25 inches in Liberty...tropical downpour is definately correct!

Just northwest of Liberty on the far northeast corner of KCMO I can report that I have yet to see the rain guage go over two inches the entire year.  I have little reason to believe the remainder of this event will change that situation.  When I left 30 minutes ago, I had 1.82 inches of rain.

Rainfall total in Lees Summit, approx 1.5 east of Longview Lake, just off 3rd Street 3.94"

2.01" is the final tally at the fort.

4.6 inches in Prairie Village

Olathe 131st and BlackBob 3.88 inches as of 8:10AM

There's exactly 5 inches of rain in my rain gauge.  This has been since the rain started last evening.  I was woken up by a very noisy storm between 12:30 AM and 2 AM.

Kristi in south Raytown

My unofficial rain gauge (dog water bowl/bird water bowl) was overflowing, so at least 2" at 38th & State in KCK.    Guess we should care about what happened to Hurricane/Tropical storm/Tropical Depression/Remnant  Dolly!! She toured the country touching more people than some thought she would.
Hopefully her tour ends soon!

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Her days are numbered as she gets absorbed into the flow today.

Gary

3" in Greenwood.

Stormlover, you can get a rain guage at any hardware store.  It is best to have it in an open are with no trees.  Most can be attached to the top of a chain link fence. Some are on a stand that can be placed anywhere in your yard.

Thanks emcat!  I'll find one for a chain link fence - that's pretty open.

1.38 inches here at 64th and I-29.

My rain gauge measured 4.57" of rain Gary.

Laura in Raytown

We got 2.9" through the evening and over night at 69th & Larsen in East Shawnee.

We received > 5-1/2 " which is how much our gauge holds. Completely full this morning in North Leawood.

2.85 inches here north of Lawson....still lightly raining.  My fall green beans are off to a great start!

2.93" of rain at 79th and Lackman in Lenexa. WoW! I was not expecting to see 6" totals this morning. And to think I thought almost 3" was a lot of rain...

David

Okay Gary, my rain gauge is broken but I had a trash can and bucket out in two different locations in my yard.  Both are registering over 11".  We are at 116th & Antioch.  I know a trash can and bucket are not scientific, but I assume they can give a good guesstimate.  It seems unbelievable though.  Is this even remotely accurate?

Wow...what a rain event to remember for you all up in Overland Park/Olathe and then east and north of their. I recieved a good amount of rain overnight with some still falling. I got 2.11 inches. Our typical ditches and back yards are full of water. Between this event and the 2.67 I recieved last week sometime those cracks in my yard are gone. :o)....stay safe everyone.
Monica
Pleasanton, KS

Gary:  Olathe keeps missing the rain, but we got it this time.  6.56" at 151st and Blackbob as of 9:10AM.  It is now just lightly raining.  FINALLY!!  I will be e-mailing you some pictures of the flooding I took this morning.

Laura--you should be able to buy a very inexpensive rain gauge from Wal Mart or a similar store. It will only measure to tenths of an inch, not hundredths, but that is still good enough for most people. Notes in the Margin recommends a more expensive one (~30 or 40 bucks I think) that does down to 0.01".

As for where to put it....well, that can be tough. You can try attaching it to a fence or a post in your yard where it's not blocked by trees.

Speaking of gauges, I have been too lazy to replace my broken one too. Where are you ctjhawk? You live close to me and I want to know your report.

This station is near my house (near downtown OP), reporting 3.17" of rain...looks like the temperature and dewpoint sensors went batty at about 5 am though.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KKSOVERL5

4.75" in Kearney

We just have a basic plastic rain gauge that is attached to the chain link fence..  It works well for me.  

Kristi

5.2 " here in Blue Springs off Valley View. It's still sprinkling.

Olathe North HS- 3.26" We're at East Prairie St,and KC Road.

I live at 435 and Renner and my $2.00 Walmart rain gauge was topped out this morning at over 6"!  I had no idea it rained that much last night.

My rain gauge tipped over... I knew I should have nailed it to the fence. Does anyone have the total for new century in Gardner?

Gary,
2.60 here at 68th and leavenworth rd in Kck.

-Rodney

2.97 inches total in Roeland Park

Lance

When I got up this morning, we had 3.2 inches around 87 & Antioch in northern Overland Park. I'll try to update again when I run home at lunch to check on my 4 1/2 month old puppy. :)

-- Liberty in Overland Park

Seems it rained last night...  ;-)

4.8" in Lee's Summit, just east of Longview College.

4.1" at 91st and Antioch.  That'll muddy things up for a few days!

5.5 inches at 119th and Quivira - could have been more - rain guage was full

Boy, we missed out on all the excitement.
Only .80 just east of Ottawa.

Hi Gary,

Just wanted to pass along a rainfall total from southern Blue Springs.  Measured 4.35"  as of 10:00 this morning.

Matt..

I wanted a little rain, wow!  I don't like being awakened at 2:30 am by the weather radio saying there is a flood warning for Indian Creek, that's my back yard here in Olathe!  The water was higher than I've ever seen it, almost to our fence, at least we don't need to mow it now. Why can't mother nature just spread all that out for a couple of weeks.  Do we get a dry out before the next one?

Just mist now,

Jhonson County Executive Airport: 6.44"

Okay, can someone please help me out with my weather radio?  We have one of the Price Chopper ones (by Midland, I believe).  We programmed it to just go off for warnings in our county, which it does.  The problem is that it goes off for flash flood warnings.  I'm not downplaying the danger of flash floods at all, but I don't need an alarm alert of them.  I'm not likely to get out and drive into high water at 2 am, which is when ours went off last night.  It went off again several hours later when the warning was extended, too.  Is there ANY way to turn off flash flood warnings?  I've scoured the manual, and it doesn't look possible.  

Hamons--

Wow! What a difference a few blocks makes! :) Maybe my total will have caught up when I check in after lunch...

1.85 inches at 65th & State Ave in KCK.  Was a wild night for sure.. hope it will be dry tonight as I'm wanting to visit the Wyandotte County Fair.  

Stacy N the Gang

Chickadee - you have the same one that we do.  Somewhere in there (and you can go online too) there's a spot to program which counties you want, and which warnings you want - ice, snow, flood, tornados, etc.  Right off the top of my head, I can't tell you but I know there is a way to do it because we didn't want the flood stuff either.  Look in the manual and see if there is a website - couldn't tell you what that is right now either. But there is a way to program it.  If they did it for you, you may have to do something like "restore factory settings" or something - I don't know because we just did ours ourselves.  Hope that helps!  Laura.

Dang I should of stuck with 1 inch at KCI, but the next blog I changed it to 1.8. Ohh well, that was a good first guess. My 2nd guess for KCI was 1.8 inches.

I guessed KCI"s very close the first guess: 1 inch, act- 0.96"

I ended up guessing my rainfall in Marceline on the changed KCI guess, 1.8 inches, and Marceline ended up with 1.8 inches.

Alex from Marceline

Gary and all-
What a crazy storm.  Just like all of you on the South side the Northeast part was just as crazy when it came to rain totals.  Here on the South side of Liberty my rain total was 4.15".  At the same time Stormlover has 3.25" just about a mile away and Zazel is less than 5 miles Northwest of me and had less than 2"!  Now I understand what the meteorologists mean about the feeder bands of a hurricane.  Even here, over 1000 miles from the ocean Dolly still hit us with her bands of energy.  Wow!

Hummerseeker,

I have SCOURED the manual for this information, and all I could find was how to program our SAME code for the county and how to set it up for just warnings to set off the alarm.  It doesn't say how to specify warning types.  Do you have the $29.99 one (WR100) or a fancier one?

Rain total...near 128th & Mur-Len, Olathe ...   4.4"

Gosh Chickadee, I don't remember that much!  Probably just the $29.99 - we got it a couple years ago so I expect maybe it has changed somewhat.  Ido know in the manual that it listed all the different "warnings" and we had to pick different codes for those or something.  I'm a long ways away from home or I'd run home and check!  I live out in Kingsville.  There should be a website listed somewhere - look on there and search for warning codes or something like that. If that doesn't work, most places have a "technical support" button and lots of times you can get "live" help.  I'm sorry I'm not much use! Laura

I found their website, and it had an online version of their manual, but nothing about limiting types of warnings, so I emailed Midland's customer help email address.  

I'm not very hopeful I can get this turned off; their website says that only warnings which justify waking people up in the middle of the night are broadcast.  I disagree with flash flood warnings!

As of 7:00 AM 3.2" on 79th west of Lackman in Lenexa.

Well i must say, that last nite was the most rain i have ever seen fall all at one time! the south side of johnson county finally got it! the creek in my backyard went bezerk but thankfully no flooded basements for me :D, on the unfortunate side, my rain guage had a max of 5 inches... yeah it overflowed.... soo put me down on the list of overflowed rain guages!

I just hope no one drove through high water cuz i know there are still some major road closures.

151st and Mission: 5+?? lol

liberty Jeff, you always get more rain then we do & a girl I work with who is 1/2 mile away gets less than I do.  It's so weird how it always works that way.

less than 2 tenths in st jo

66th St just west of 350 Hwy ... overflowed our 5" rain gauge.  It's almost noon and still drizzling.

here in the sedalia. i got 1.2 in the rain gauge with more rain still falling.

Lotsa rain over in East Lawrence 1.34".

Ray

Here in rural McLouth KS rainfall total is 1.55"
There was water flowing over parts of 24 HWY between Lawrence and Perry this morning.

Okay....just out of total curiosity..

If this were winter...how much SNOW would that have been??

Liz
Lee's Summit, MO

4.75 inches here in Independence near Buckner.  What a great stormy night that was!!!!!  I loved it and today feels alot like fall which makes me want summer over even more!!!!!!!!!!!  That and the fact that it means we are so much closer to vaacation!!!!!  I would love it if this were wintertime and that was snow!  That would be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

4.75 inches here in Independence near Buckner.  What a great stormy night that was!!!!!  I loved it and today feels alot like fall which makes me want summer over even more!!!!!!!!!!!  That and the fact that it means we are so much closer to vaacation!!!!!  I would love it if this were wintertime and that was snow!  That would be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

Chickadee,

If you haven't found out already, I am sure that you canNOT filter out the warnings. If the alert tone is broadcast with the warning, the radio will go off, if it is for your county. The NWS only uses the alert tone for warnings it feels are life threatening, and flash flooding is certainly life threatening. But they cannot chose to not use the alert tone just because it is the middle of the night. I hope this doesn't keep you from using it, because it is very important, you just have to get used to the flood warnings. Hope this helps.

David

Gary, my final total is just shy of 3 3/4 inches of rain in Liberty.

Lizbaugh, it's hard to say because in the winter we wouldnt see this much moisture, but usually 1inch rain = 10-14inches of snow.

I started to rain really hard last night around 8 p.m. give or take. My youngest went outside to play in it for a couple of minutes (no lightning then) when she came inside maybe 2 minutes later she looked like she had jumped into the pool. She was that soaked! The real rain started then for us (between Blue Springs, Lake Lotawana and Lee's Summit, basically the 7 and Colbern roads) and never stopped. Between the weather radio going off (4 or 5 times from midnight on) and my phone going off (I get weather text messages sent to it from two different places) there was not a whole lot of sleep going on last night (o.k., none). For those of you who were complaining that your weather radio was going off for various flood watches and warnings.. Those warnings can save people. Yes, they are a pain sometimes in the middle of the night, but I would rather be annoyed then have a creek damage my house. My daughter's boyfriend could not even get to his house because a small stream goes under his driveway (the steam bed is far below the road). He came home to 18" of water cutting across his driveway. His dad had to come and get him in the tractor. By the way, I'm one of those people who the flood warnings, watches, etc does not effect. It is nice being on high ground with no streams going through the property. (though Lake Jacomo is a little over a mile from my house) Thanks for all the rain totals everyone. We are in our own little micro climate and I have not bought a rain gauge yet. I usually use the empty 5 gallon bucket trick too. From all your totals I was able to figure out that we got about 4.5" (maybe a little  more) of rain.
Audra

David,

I kind of do want to stop using it at this point because it's like having a crying child in the middle of the night and for no good reason.  We bought it to be awoken for something life threatening, and flash flooding is not that.  I'm so frustrated with this radio, and I may look for one that allows more user control over the types of alarms it signals.

It rained here in Emma, MO, too ... .9" by 2130 CDT yesterday ... another 2.32" before 0100 today ... 1.34" through 1330 ... a running total of running water: 2.85" since last night's news, 3.75" since yesterday evening. For a while last night (okay, this morning) there was as much as 1.5" in my basement.

Walt Snyder

Storm total of 2.39 here NE of Tonganoxie.  It was certainly an impressive system, with a truly torrential downpour during the 3am hour.  I am sure thankful for the precip though as it is much needed around here.  It quickly filled (and overflowed) the rain barrels, so that should help with the heat next week.

Way to go on sticking to your guns last night Gary with your forecast for a significant nocturnal precip event ... there were plenty of naysayers around here when the radar trends seemed to falter, but that wasn't the full story.

Total precipitation for the month of July measured 3.59" for East Lawrence.

Ray

I have my midland turned off most of the time because of this same reason. It can go over numerous times during a storm even and most of the time I don't feel it's life threatening to me. I know one can successfully argue that flash flooding is life threatening, and so is severe thunderstorms, but when the sucker goes off all the time for issues that do not impact my life at 2am it gets turned off. The problem is if an issue does arrive where my attention is needed, it won't occur because the midland is set to not receive alerts. This is a flaw in the design of this device that has set this midland up for failure as a consumer device.  I hope future models will address this, or maybe this is a model that does..who knows. Granted I find storms amusing at 8:00 in the evening, at 2am, probably not as much.

Plus, not to mention the 1-2 alert tests that go off on Wednesdays! Absolutely flipping annoying when your sitting down to dinner and it goes off so you have to run all the way up stairs to turn it off...

Chickadee - everyone's making me wonder now if we DO have one of those.  It didn't go off last night - but that could be because my husband turned it off when he went to bed.  DaveC said that his can't be narrowed down either - so maybe I'm just wrong! I could swear that two years ago when I did program it that I selected just ice, severe storms and tornados!  But I"m getting old .. . Laura

Oh well I know we don't get test warnings on Wednesdays - well maybe.  But we both work, so . .. I'm going to have to check.

3.98" in Northern Blue Springs for a storm total.  

Chikadee,

I had the same problem with Midland, so I bought a First Alert WX-150 through Amazon for about $35.  It allows you to specify exactly what types of warnings you want to set off the alarm for.  Not only that, but it seems to have better range, which is important for me since I live about 35 miles SE of Kansas City.

I

Okay Chickadee - I went to the Midland site - I clicked on something about the codes and it linked to this page:

http://www.weather.gov/os/eas_codes.shtml  

It has a list of the codes for specific events - I'm 99% sure that this is what we used for ours, so I guess it could be a different model.  Maybe the older ones you could specify and the new ones you can't?  It was either the winter of 2005 or spring of 2006 when we got it.  

But there isn't any place in your book that shows all these codes?

The "other" Johnson county (MO) 6" rain since last night...intersection of highways 23 and E.

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Thanks!  You are "the" Johnson county of Missouri!!!!!

Gary

Gary, my previous rainfall total was wrong - the wireless rain gauge tipped over.  The manual one shows the correct total of 2.91 inches in the Oakshire subdivision by Powell Gardens, MO.  This is about 1 mile NE of Highway 50 and Z Highway.

KCJay - thanks for the totals - I live off of W on the other side of 50 about 3 or so miles south - I was wondering how much we got!

KCK @ N 18th and State;

Since 7 PM yesterday:  2.45

Month of July:  7.98

Year to date:  33.79

Right on the edge of the rich stuff here.   It was good enough!

Chickadee,

I'm appalled that you don't consider flash flooding worth having your weather radio going off for at night!  

Flash flooding IS the biggest killer, not tornadoes, not hail, not lightning.  Everyone needs to have a weather radio and have it set for flash flooding regardless if your on a hill or near a creek or stream.

While flooding does not affect us (my insurance agent who lives near me laughed when I asked if I need flood insurance, then they said, no we don't need it) I would rather have the radio go off all the time then have possiable issues happen. The way I figure it, tornados can happen 12 months out of the year. If the weather is unstable enough to cause a thunderstorm that lasts all night and is big enough to give us muliple inches of rain, then who knows what else it can produce. Even though no tornados were prodicted or expected, I know that they can happen when they are not expected. I would rather be tired the next day then have an unexpected event happen and not be prepared. I guess it is my "training" from living in California and having the chance of an earthquake anytime and anywhere. I would rather be too prepared/paranoid than have an issue. Just my two cents worth.
Audra

My wife once tried to turn off my weather radio when it alarmed, but failed.  So she unplugged it, but back-up batteries kept it alarming.  After finding and pulling out the batteries, she took the radio and slammed it against the wall, shattering it.  

The storm damage to the inside wall of the house was somewhat minor.  The radio, however, was totaled.

Siraluce- My husband once turned my weather radio off and I let him have it!!  He knows not to even come close to the thing unless he's listening to the report!!  You could say I take weather MUCH more seriously than he does!  Dea

I am more afraid of my wife than the storms.  

Then again, I have lightning protection on our house and a basement.

Siraluce, LOL!! I'm sure my husband would agree with you unfortunately!!  I guess you could say I have a "stormy temper" at times; but he just doesn't understand my fascination with the weather and thinks I'm nuts to spend so much time watching the weather on TV and this blog.  Good luck in the future!  Dea

Just got home and my rain gauge tells me I had 5.4" at 99th & Nall.

Hey Gary,
 Just got home and checked rain gauge at Lake Tapawingo...it reads 5.4 or so inches!  Thought someone might have peed in my guage so called neighbor.  She had close to same amount.  Wow.  

Chris

Hey Gary,
 Just got home and checked rain gauge at Lake Tapawingo...it reads 5.4 or so inches!  Thought someone might have peed in my gauge so called neighbor.  She had close to same amount.  Wow.  

Chris

Hey Gary, there is a moon on the Friday weather graphic on the website....lol

Just thaught I would point that out.

1.8 inches in Marceline

Alex

7.87 Inches of Rain in Old 56 Hwy Exit

Frisco lake by my house is Very Flooded. Water has poured out and has flooded the Path around the lake. The other lake that has a 4.8 foot ditch in the ground to prevent flooding was about another inch or 2 beofre flooding the street.

I have Pictures. However I dont know how to upload them because there on my cell phone.

All n All. The rain was very excessive. Just very glad that my home didnt flood or that the lake at the end of my street didnt flood.

2.27" of rain 2 miles South of Reno. All the ponds are running through their tubes again.

My mother lives on the other side of Jackson county and her gauge is showing 6.15 inches of rain.

Billy, common sense. yes, flash flooding is a huge killer, but if I'm laying in bed at 2am, what do you want me to do? wake up so i can run around outside yelling "THE FLOODS ARE COMING, THE FLOODS ARE COMING". The point for those who are at home it becomes more of an annoyance and another reason to turn off the alarm... it's more "know your audience..."

Gary,

How come we can no longer watch the LIVE construction of the new set?  I have not been on for a while and I just noticed that you can only watch timelaps.  Just a question.  Thanks!

Gary,

My part of Liberty had 8" for the month...incredible for July!

1.25 inches of rain fell here 2 miles west of Smithville.  Total for July stands at 4.75 inches.  A very nice month indeed!

Off topic, but I just thought that everybody who loves roller coasters like I do would like to know....

Worlds of Fun in Kansas City is now building a **NEW wooden roller coaster** set to be completed summer of 2009!  Worlds of Fun has been keeping this on the down low, but I was told about it a few days ago.  I was told that it will be a little bigger and faster than the Timber Wolf.  If you ride the train at Worlds of Fun, you can see many orange flags and a lot of wood for the future roller coaster.  They will be broadcasting this info by around January 1st.

Just thought I would pass this wonderful news along!

Have a great night!!

1.36 is my final total at 169 & Englwood.

I bought my new monster rain guage earlier this month and since July 12th I've only had 2.12, obviously over half that last night and this morning.

My daughter and I have a question... It concerns lightning. Why does the lightning have different "colors". We have seen blue, yellowish, pinkish/orangeish and of course white. Are the different colors due to pollutants in the air? Is it because of the distance the lightning is to us? All of the above? Also, how many of you look to nature to tell what the weather is going to be like? Gary, since the geese are already starting to fly South, does that mean that we will have an early and or extra cold Winter?
Audra

.62 here south of St. Joseph.  Not too bad for the month about 6.7 inches for July, spaced out evenly.  Still waiting for that one huge rain that fills up the pond.  While we have had continual rains, never anything impressive or even close to causing flooding.

It's amazing that all the heavy rain events have missed us this month.

As we were on our way to the movies (around 7:30pm), we saw some impressive areas of fog already developing just west of the I-29/169 interchange. On the way home, we saw a couple of thicker areas of fog near Macken Park in North Kansas City.

Does anyone else notice the "moony" forecast on Friday? what is there suppose to be a solar eclipse that day or something? just click on The action weather full forecast and look at the extended forecast to see it and Friday has a big full moon on it.

I just looked it up there is supposed to be one..northern canada, siberia and china. but not us.

I had 4.6 inches in downtown Lee's Summit...

Thanks
Brian

I am ready for a heavy rain event, fill up my pond mother nature!

Wow, I just looks at observed total precipitation year to date on the NWS website.  There are places in Missouri more than double what we have had here.  Granted we are above normal too, but it seems like an extremely wet weather pattern has missed this area, so close, but so far.  I hope that the next LRC continues a wet trend; there have been far too many dry years and we haven't caught up where I am at.

Anyone up out there who lost their time warner cable boxes around 1am tonight? Constant busy on their local number. Something must have blown. Must be the fog :-)

Yes, time warner dvr boxes all went out about 1 and it is imposible to get through.  My non dvr box seems to work fine.  

Like I said, I don't mean to downplay the importance of flash flood warnings.  Flash floods are dangerous, but they aren't dangerous if we live on a hill and are asleep in our beds on the top floor of the house.  In that way, I think users should be able to disable flood warnings, the way we can disable county warnings not pertinent to us.  

At the end of the day, I found out from Midland that you can't disable specific warning codes.  

I'll look for a product that lets me do that.