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We are getting an intense thunderstorm here in Marceline. The wind gust about blew me off the road...lol.

I will send you a rain report later.

There is lots of lightning. It has been a while since we have seen stuf like this!

Alex

The Remindes me about the 1998 Chiefs vs Bears game. Where it rained so Hard that they had to Evacuate the Stadium. Chiefs game is delayed till 7PM, i doubt they will get the game in.

Had pea sized hail earlier, and just had some heavy rain a little bit ago.  I don't have the best rain gauge, but looks like about .3" so far- don't know if that's right or not- I would've guessed more.  I'm at 68th Terr. and Oak  Dea

Thunder and lighting and very dark here is south lee's summit but no rain

Wow, mdg2fast4u
We too are in Lee's Summit and we have tons of rain and lightning. It is hard to see out the windows it is raining so hard. Lots of lightning bolts striking close to the house. We are near the intersection of the 7 and Colbern roads. It might be slowing down a bit, thank goodness.
Audra in Lee's summit.

Bummer - looks like the Northland will be missed ...

well a bird flew over Wyandotte County..   looks mighty dry here.

Say, is this the actual front moving through?  Looks like most of the water is going south of 70 now... just wondered if we'll get more?

Raytown got an inch of rain between 5:30 and 6:15 plus light hail for about 15 minutes.  Another batch is starting. The grass is already looking happy again.

Darn it, I think we're going to get missed. We need some rain. Looks like it formed just south of us.

Not a drop in Platte City ---just got to watch it all around us.

weatherfreak01 about 5-10 mins after I said that it started raining

Lost power here for about 2 minutes then it came back on than goodness!

"well a bird flew over Wyandotte County..   looks mighty dry here."

Hey! I saw that same bird here in SE Leavenworth Co.  Missed the rain yet again for the fourth Thursday in a row.  Kudos to the rest of you getting rain.

Just like you said Gary the lightening is amazing!

exactly 1" in Gardner with the rain moving off.

Luther.. shame on that birdie.   Wonder where his/her buddies were.  Oh well, maybe we'll get our share someday.

Well we had tremendous thunder and lightning here in eastern Jackson County.  1/2 inch of rain.  Not as much as I would like but I will take it!

I am so bummed KMCI just missed.

We still have rain, but it is just rain, not pouring at over 2" an hour rain. We have lightning in the clouds. I am not seeing nearly as much cloud to ground lightning. I would have to say that is about 95%-98% done. The light outside is a pale gold (my husband says pale grey). It almost looks like Sunset lite.. Thunder still being heard. I would have to agree with Gary, I think we got 1-2" of rain based on the water level in the pool.
Audra in Lee's Summit

Is that it?

I called it! Check the last blog!

gary. storms just rolled through columbia. i am emailing you a picture or two of what i saw. had very heavy rain, strong wind and lots of lighting.

Gary,

WOW, 1.54 here in SW Grain Valley! Seems like the storms formed right on top of us...lots of vivid lightening, thunder and period of small hail. Wish it could have formed just a bit further north, so the whole city could have gotten wet.

Jeff

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Jeff,

At least you got a nice soaking. There were many areas that were left dry!

Gary

 
BoiseStateFootballFan FTW! (that's "For The Win" for you who only use the intraweb to send emails to gummy) We got a lot of rain in Grain Valley, but I'd be way mad if I lived in the north land!

It seems like the storm to the south in Kansas is slowing down. I have been watching all evening waiting for it to get to La Cygne. Getting lots of lightening and thunder now.

Earlier the sky was as Brown as Butterscotch!

We got 0.59 inches here at 143rd and Nall.  Good times!

Just shy of 1" in Greenwood.

Pics sent of nice little shelf cloud.

Later,
Mike in Ottawa

A whopping 0.00 in leavenworth, I look at it this way I dont have to mow the grass!!!!!!!!

Yep, Northlander here almost a stone's throw north of the I29/I35 split.  Not a drop but it sure got dark and looked like something was going to happen for a while.

.76 so far out in Higginsville, MO

i am glad that i am not the only one that got zilch from the storm...

I recieved 1.1" here in Lee's Summit!  and I hear more thunder again :-)

.21" in Overland Park, 99th & Lowell.  The sky was eery about an hour ago.  Kind of a yellow/green.

Why does this always happen...Kansas City is so divided when it comes to weather.  Seriously...is there anywhere else where you can get this split?  It happens in winter too.  You either get pounded or you get nothing.


We need another line of storms to plow through the areas where it missed the first time!

OK so, just fer tha record: here is what I blogged at 3:52 this afternoon:

BoiseStateFootballFan said:
I dont know you guys, remember that we lived on an island here a few months back and storms had a habit of "diverging" or going around us..... I'll go WAY out on a limb here and say KCI and the Northland get missed altogether, downtown gets a .10th, south Olathe gets the bulk of the rain.
August 28, 2008 3:52 PM

I cant explain why, but as I saw the radar at that time, lots of development up north, but an obvious GAP was on radar, then out west more development. Some strange reason: we have something happening right over KCI that causes weather to disappear. Kinda like the Bermuda Triangle.....

Here's to a DRY AUGUST. Perhaps we might catch a band of GUSTAV if he makes it far enough North.....

At 9:00 One BIG THUNDER clap in Raytown with a little more heavy rain. Have had 1.4" of rain since 5:30 pm. Gotta love it!

Been the story all year in Liberty.  Rain in all directions but over us!  I agree with you Boise Fan something is going on around here.  I saw the gap in the radar earlier and set-up the sprinklers.  My wife was mad at me for watering when storms are coming.  I told her we weren't going to get any and she thought I was crazy, until now.  Sure glad some are getting some great totals!

Now there is a new line forming, again just South of Liberty!  Go figure.  Come on Gustav!  Our last good rain was when Dolly came by!

Here in SE Lee's Summit we received 1.30 and if it rains some more I will update before 10pm thx, kristy

Just took a look at my rain gauge and we got exactly half an inch in chillicothe.

raining again here at 68th Terr. and Oak- lots of lightening and thunder.  Will check the rain gauge after this next round moves through.  dea

Patriot - I know it feels that way for sure.  Looking at the data, sure, more rain fell away from KMCI, but temps were largely the same.

Comparing Chillicothe and Olathe...almost exactly the same.

Because most storms are not large systems..it can work out that way...

Final total unless it rains some more- .70 at 68th Terr. and Oak.  Dea

Emma MO reporting in: Thunder, lightning, light rain. No hail but 1.21" accumulated rainfall this evening.

Walt Snyder

What a weather afternoon in St. Joe, at around 4:45 p.m. the first cell hit( actually kind of grazed us to the north) and it brought a very interesting shelf cloud that blasted us with very strong winds starting out of the northwest and ending up out of the north-northeast, this knocked out our power, knocked down an old large dead limb that apparently was still in one of our trees since the June 8th storm I'm guessing. I can't overstate how neat this shelf cloud was, it was very low and kind of looked like it was rotating somewhat. Well we got some rain big drops, a quick mod. downpour and then it backed off for a while. at about 5:50 p.m. another cell moved in and we started having some crashing thunder and a downpour, while the lowering sun came out at the same time, NEAT! as that was happening we were given a double rainbow which dad did try to take a pic. of with his digital camera.  Well finally at about 6:50 p.m. the power was finally restored.  Don't think it was a big enough storm for the power to have to be out that long, but it was anyway, all in all, I am glad today was my day off;)
Nick in St. Joe!

A grand total of 25 rain drops in my neck of the woods around the 1-29/35 split. It was just enough to make my car look dirty because of all the dustbowl we have in the Northland. Oh well I enjoy watering my plants, guess that is a good thing because we sure have not had any luck getting any rain up North. Congrats to all those who got rain.

Blue Ridge & I-70 (by the stadiums) so far 1.70 inches.  yippee.. I have a happy garden now!

raining again in raymore, steady but nothing to heavy yet. sure glad we got some. it seemed like this winter we got nothing and the north got it all. now the south is getting the rain

South Blue Springs so far 2.20 inches with some rain still falling.  Hail and high wind gusts earlier in the evening.  Great rain!

Looks like i missed all of the rain here at 68th and leavenworth rd Kck. Only a few drops.

-Rodney

Not a drop at 169 & Cookingham

Unfortunately I had to be at Auto Zone all day for work, well actually I was really just being the delivery driver all day and while I was delivering. My Store location is at roughly I 35 and Santa Fe(135th St) and I was delivering parts to a sister store all the way up in KCK and I noticed a HUGE Cumulus Congestus billlowing and in no time it became a mature cumulonimbus that I had the pleasure of driving through in a light weight rear wheel drive ranger on the way back down to the home store. I'm use to driving a subaru with All wheel drive. It was intimidating. So I beat the storm down the store and no more than 20 minutes goes by and the wwind picks up and it just pours like hell. There is then a break between the rain and a customer comes in needing a battery. Well we install batteries free of charge at Auto Zone and so I tell him I'll put his battery in. no later then when I said that. It begins pouring again and the lighting and thunder begin to roar like crazy but none the less I installed a Part number DG-35 Duralast Gold Battery in his car during a roaring thunderstorm. So that's my day for you guys LOL Have a great night! Off to do it again tomorrow!

Johnathan I feel your pain on the Autozone driving.  been there done that.  And the battery in the rain.. just u wait till this winter.. You'll have a blast puttin on wipers in the freezing cold and the snow.

Here in Marceline, we got a severe thunderstorm earlier that about blew me off the road when the wind gust came through, then it dumped very heavy rain. There are several tree branches down, and there was a monster sycamore tree branch I saw laying on the ground as well

I have 0.5" in my guage....just enough rain, that I will have to mow again on Monday =[.

Alex

My CoCoRaHS gauge measured 1.05 inches from yesterday's rain Gary.  We also had pea size hail at the beginning of the storm then torrential rains.

Laura in Raytown

Morning weather team.  

1.40 inches of rain in Grandview.

Bill

KCK/N 18th and State:  2 (count 'em!) 2 hundredths of an inch.  

Monthly total 1.75 inches.

The Siraluce Split was in full force with this event.. no measurable rain within 10 miles or more of KCI, it appears.  Unfortunately, the Siraluce Split effect was so strong it eliminated any significant rain north of I-70 - at least on the west side.

Fascinating!

Checked rain gauge this morning before I left this morning.  Ended up with about 3 inches of rain.  I am located Northern Lee's Summit about a mile west of Blue Springs Lake.

Hans Out!

Rainfall totals for south Blue Springs - 2.30 inches.  My yard is loving it!