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I am trying to see storm attributes and storm warnings on the new weather page interactive map but I am unable to do so.  I can get lightning strikes.

Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong?  (I am checking the appropriate boxes)

I woke up this morning to slushy hail on my car and against my house.  I missed the whole show(I can sleep through anything).  There was some minor icing on trees but nothing on the roads out here in Lawrence.

I'm driving to Lenexa at 12 so I'm glad things didn't get worse!  Have a great weekend!

-Brian

I got ice here in western Dotte.

The rain is frozen in the screens and on the windows, so it is going to look like it's still raining for a while.  We managed to stay in tact, just a freaked out husband (and a scaredy dog) who thought the house was blowing away.  I wasn't expecting the weather to be so bad.

Hi Gary- we are just starting to get snow in Hutchinson- here in Central KS

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas!

JP

LibertyB , that had to have shattered your glass when it struck your window. Wow! Scary.

The trampoline we have had for 2 years and has gone through spring and summer storms and never once moved slammed into our fence and is bent up like a pretzel!The neighbors beside us have a tree limb sticking straight out of the ground! and now the trees are coated with a thin layer of ice! What crazy December weather! It just amazes me what can happen in Kansas city.

Freezing rain just stopped here in Shoal Creek/Liberty area.  There is minor icing on trees, but no ice on my driveway or the street in front of my house.  Temperature is steady at 30.5 degrees.  I was up when the storm blew through around 5:00 AM (thanks to my weather radio.)  The winds were nowhere near the warned 70 mph, but they were strong.  

gary, when was the last time you remember seeing something like this happen?

Noticed some tree damage near downtown OP... mostly minor, but there were two houses on 79th St with big trees blown over.

So sorry to hear about the damage some of you all had.  I woke up around 3, checked the radar, then passed out cold again.  

Does anyone know of a site where you can replay the radar to see what happened?  I remember last night pvt murphy mentioned he thought the storm might bow out, amazing!  

Yeah, this is twilight zone weather for sure.
Rain's over now here by the stadiums & not much freezing so far.  Raingauge is in mothballs, but guessing from the water standing in the bucket outside, had at inch to 1.25 inches of water.  MAN, I'm glad that wasn't all ice!  

I've had 1 inch of rain in my rain guage here in south Olathe.  I slept right thru the storms this morning.

StormWyndd - check out http://www.wunderground.com - you can replay the radar on that site.

We had about 1.23 inches here in SE Lee's Summit this morning!  The rain started for us around 5:45, with the heaviest rain around 6:30.

wow the SPC has me under a winter storm warning until 4!  was not expecting that!
becky

We ended up with .86 inches of rain this morning just west of Trimble, MO.  We didn't get the winds that a lot of people are reporting.  The highest gust up here was just 31 mph.  The anemometer is encased in ice now.  Was not expecting to see .1 - .2 inches of ice on everything when I woke up this morning.

just so you guys know...,I'm not coming back to Kansas City..I am now living in flagstaff AZ...theres like 3 feet of snow there and more is coming LOL

meanwhile..you are all freaking out in kansas City..because we might get 1 inch of snow! LOL.....man I feel sorry for the snow lovers...we haven't gotten a decent snow yet there....

anyway I'll be back tuesday.

Brent

near 169 & Englewood I had 1.17 inches of precip over the past 24 hours.  .98 of that fell from 4:53AM to 5:30AM when that wicked little bow echo moved through southern Clay county.  This was one night I was glad the weather radio woke me up so I could see this whole event take place.

I guess I lucked out though.  My table and grill are blown around on the back deck, and my chairs are now down at the edge of the woods (100 feet away from house), but otherwise I don't find anything damaged luckily.

My heads spinning.

Anyone offhand know how to get the peak wind gusts this morning from either New Century Airport in Gardner or Johnson County Industrial at 151st and Pflumm?  

I tried searching a little but didn't get far before thinking I would have faster luck posing that question here.  I had 5 700lb calves run through a heavy gauge field fence last night.  The wind sounded like a slowly approaching freight train with a stuck throttle for about 5 minutes (a few times!).  I believe here at Hillsdale lake we got on part of the curve of the bow echo from looking at radar.  Gets your heart a thumping when you are half asleep...that is for sure!

sounds like bad storms last night...too bad I missed out....lol

severe weather in late december...hah

I think I'll just start cultivating the attitude. "Okay, whatever happens, happens. Deal with it."

Have a nIcE DaY

Gary,

Thank you for all the blog entries since last night. I woke up when the "gust front" went through and I stayed awake until 5:30am before falling back to sleep until 8:00am [late for me]. No significant damage to my condo complex in south OP but, I did notice a few roof shingles down and some branches lying here and there. I also noticed that my thermometer hit 68 degrees at 2:52am. It will be interesting to see if the upper low and snow hold together later today,

Bob

Monday is the day when the NEW ACTION WEATHER PLUS is unveiled... correct?

weatherbug reported  that new century had a 78 mph gust of wind.

So, we are going to see some sun and milder weather the next 4 days starting tomorrow right?

Thought my fellow bloggers, and weather team members would enjoy this headline from todays Lawrence Journal World, and I quote....
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Weird weather rare, but not impossible.
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Storm reports show that  New Century or Johnson County Exc. had a wind gust to 79 mph. Not sure which airport it was.

why is it that the spc is the only place saying that I am under a WSW?
becky

Ah Brent, that is so good to know you have that much snow in Flagstaff. The kid's father lives there now after moving from CA "due to the heat". He's never had to drive in snow. Does my heart good. More snow...in Flagstaff!

1912: Residents of Kansas City, Mo., began to dig out from a storm that produced 25 inches of snow in 24 hours. The snowfall total was nearly twice that of any other storm of modern record in Kansas City before or since that time. A record 40 inches of snow fell during the month of March that year, and the total for the winter season of 67 inches was also a record. By late February of that year Kansas City had received just six inches of snow. Olathe, Kan., received 37 inches of snow in the snowstorm, establishing a single storm record for the state of Kansas. (23rd-24th.

February 15-16, 1993: Central and southern Missouri was covered with up to 21 inches of snow. The airport at Cape Girardeau received 6 inches of snow in 1 hour and 20 minutes.

January 14-20, 1994: Northeast, central, and east-central Missouri experienced overnight low temperatures from below zero to –20 °F. Hundreds of homes and businesses had frozen and busted water pipes. Wind chills, which ranged from -30 to -50 °F, kept schools closed and accounted for 15 people being admitted to local hospitals for hypothermia and frostbite.

January 16-17, 1994: A layer of ice up to 2 inches thick formed over sections of southeast Missouri, followed by 6 to 10 inches of snow. Some areas were without power for more than 24 hours. Roofs collapsed due to the heavy weight of snow and ice.

January 12, 2007: While January wound up near average for temperatures across the region, the daily swings in temperatures were anything but normal. The first 12 days of the month can be categorized as above normal to much above normal with several days from 10 to 17 degrees above normal. The warm weather led up to one of the worst ice storms in history across the region. Damage estimates so far as of this report were over $40 million dollars for Greene county alone. From the 13th through the 22nd, temperatures were below normal with much below normal temperatures on the 16th and 17th. Near normal or slightly above normal temperatures occurred from the 23rd through the 27th, with much below normal temperatures for the remainder of the month. A second snow and ice storm occurred on the 20th which mainly affected southeast Kansas into west central and central Missouri. January 2007 ended with a quick moving light to moderate snowfall on the afternoon and evening of the 31st. General 1 to 3 inch snow amounts occurred throughout the region, with isolated 4 inch amounts.

Just some interesting weather events in our area, that I thought I might share

WOW!  The wind roller a large metal bleacher over at Calif trail Jr High.

" the total for the winter season of 67 inches was also a record. By late February of that year Kansas City had received just six inches of snow. "

well I guess we have hope still..lol

Just goes to show, that Kansas Weather makes up it's own mind and can do some very freakish things.

Becky, it has been canceled. No more winter advisories in effect now.

2002 had a crippling ice storm that year also.  It hit us hard.  We are south of the metro.

Right now we are at 32.6.  I need to get a rain gauge. No precip of any kind falling.

29 in Leavenworth, Ice all over the place, had some hail last night, so we have pea size hail covering the ground, and ice all over the trees, streets, houses. etc.

nice scenery.

Of course the snow is now moving North not East and will mess us.  

Miss us not mess us.....

friend lost her 80ft oak tree in 63st/435 area, roof damage to houses in the same area

AND 50 days from now is Valentines/ President's Day weekend

where are you located heavysnow? was it independence?

it looks like its moving in right on schedule, not a lot of snow, but it should coat the ground for most.  hopefully it doesnt weigh down the powerlines and branches here...i hear a lot of creaking outside already.

Gary,
           How is the LRC playing out in relation to your winter forcast so far? To me it seems to be pretty much on target. Thanks for your hard work and input here on this blog.

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Your welcome, and the winter forecast has been amazingly accurate so far.  We forecast our area to be above average on precipitation, rain and snow, and below average temperatures. Even with the last two days December is well below average so far, and wet.

Gary

I live in Blue Springs

Freezing Drizzle and 30 degrees at my house

Ark, how can it even be remotely close to a 50 something day pattern?  I'm not saying the LRC is wrong--just the timing and here's why.\
Between 49 and 55 days ago was the first week of November where it was unusually warm and mostly dry.
49 days ago it was 39-32 and partly cloudy.
50 days ago 47-35 and partly cloudy
51 days ago 55-28 with about 1/4" rain
52 days ago 71-53 and scattered showers.
53 days ago 73-56 and sunny
54 days ago 74-57 and sunny
55 days ago 76-59 and partly cloudh
There was no trough, no thunderstorms, no cold front and I just don't see how one could use anything anywhere from a 49-55 day cycle----can you>?

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Gary B,

Here's how!  Just go look at the storm on November 6th and compare it to this one.  We are on around a 50 day cycle.  In May it won't be cold either. It isn't what happens specifically on the ground that counts.  What is going on today is what we expected to happen with this year's LRC.  Maybe not the extreme from spring to winter in two hours like this morning, but this storm is directly related to the one exactly 52 days ago!

Gary

My daughter has a basketball game today at 5:30 in Independence.  We're going to be driving from Greenwood.  Anyone have an idea what kind of conditions we may be driving in?

Just got back from my Dad's house in Sibley, MO...They had either a small EF0 tornado or a VERY VERY strong wind gust... see the photos below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/neo2299/StormDamage?feat=directlink

That 50ft tower is rated to take a 100mph wind WITHOUT guide wires, however we had 6 guide wires installed...He also had a heavy trash can blow 300 ft south and a 4x8 sheet of plywood blow 400 ft in the NE direction.

Boy have I story to tell no that my power is back on near the JoCo Airport.

    Last night the storms didn't come in until around 5. At first is was just a few rumbles of thunder then SMACK. The house is hit by wind, hail and small debrie. A few seconds later the lights everywhere flash on then off with a loud boom. Power outage.
    I took pictures and as I look at them I think there are MANY LITTLE FUNNLES/TORNADOS juping around. There is lots of damge, houses stripped of shingles, tree lot of massive branches, cut in half and uprooted, all massive trees. Now we have ice, lots of ice. Some of my family got rain inside there house. Big storm, scary storm, the history on my wind meter showed a peek windgust of 102 MPH in my back yard. Although the average was 80-90 MPH. Have a great day!

flakefan,
where are you located?
becky

Just emptied the rain gauge and measured 1.8 inches of rain in Kingsville. Stepping out in the yard and you will sink a couple of inches and now it's starting to freeze with the temp at 32.0 and slowly falling.

it has begun to snow lightly at the fort.

First of all Gary, you need some sleep.  I blogged you about 3:50 AM. and I probably need some sleep too.  Second, I know the temps aren't going to match, but the first week of Nov we were in somewhat of a heat wave for the week--not just a single day.  Fifty two days ago it was 71 and 53.  Not 67 and 27.  I can see how you can make that seem like it worked.  I went to the LRC webiste and using the maps provided there, the 51 day 500 chart is most similar.

    I live by JoCo Airport, I don't think my wind meter was totally right about 102 MPH, but whatever. A Wall-Mart just south of us was TOTALLY trashed, but all cleaned up there now, to bad it didn't destroy the Wall-Mart.

Someone has something aginst low wages and products made in China.

FlakeFan, i can concur... i went around and toured the stanley area and there were plenty of pear trees that were down, shingles off houses, and tons of trash blown around.... listening to you describe the storm was almost exactly what happened on 151st and Mission... lots of wind and i wouldnt be surprised if we did get a gust over 90mph. lots of signs and such blown down on 159th also... it was crazy to see fences destroyed too!!!

and we lost power the same time: around 4:45 until 8:30... it was pretty insane! I suppose anything is possible at any given time in kansas

I have prediction............KCK will be missed this round..

gary, we are running nearly an inch below average for the month.  that doesnt seem very wet.  sure snow is running about average, due to cooler than average temps...but that isnt what you forecasted.  of course there is plenty of time for it to change.  gotta keep you honest.  after today we will only be about 1/3" below average for the month, but thats a good chunk of our average precip for the month of december.  

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Pvt. Murphy,

We only average around 1.6 inches in December.  Kansas City is up to 1.8 inches I believe, and the south side has had more than that.  How much has Leavenworth had?  It is above average at KCI!

Gary

I noticed one of those office trailers they set up at a construction site was destroyed behind that Walmart.   Also saw extremely heavy wooden playground equipment tossed like it was tooth pics.  Oddly enough I had t drive around what appeared to be someone's chimney in the road behind the Walmart too.  

And it's shrinking,(on radar) right on cue.  Snow hates it here.  Oh well, hopefully I'll get to see a small flurry before it gasps it's last breath.  Time to go drown my sorrows at the bookstore, and I have a gift card! :)   Have a great day all!

I hope no one got hurt with all that damage.
Seems like the stronger wind was to the south,and the colder temps took longer to get to the southside of town.
We got strong storms from around 4:30-8:30a.m. Then steady rain and falling temps.Not alot of ice here in Holt, and my concrete driveway is drying off.
Shure hope the snow doesn't miss us.

It feels like I have seen two months worth of weather in one night... everything from tornado watches, small hail(at about 2:20 AM) freezing thunderstorms, and now it is snowing, the most creepy thing is that it ALMOST happened again, the trees are heavy with ice, but no major damage that I can see, thankfully, although there are a lot of sticks and one decent sized branch in my yard. It seems that my " Rod Serling" comment I made last night was more than fitting. Wow this "active period" is going out with a bang!

It was interesting last night, about 4:40 in the morning I was still up (and half asleep) and my porch window was cracked, when apparently the storm coming through here (Olathe) formed into a bow echo as it passed and I have never quite experienced anything like it, our blinds started blowing, it was amazing how vicious the wind was!  It definitely woke me up and I slammed the door shut and watched as the wind blew, I've never heard it that bad or see things flying so high in the air.  It was impressive to say the least.  

So I've experienced my first bow echo. :)

   Guess what, somebody just showed me a picture of a tornado (showing it to everyone at the store) they we're driving around taking pictures of weather and the tornado was over my house. It was probably an EF-1 but I think those peeps are weirdos, my house is on a big hill.

It looks like this pattern may not be done with us yet.
There might be something comming by just after New Years.

Light sleet in Lenexa at 3:19pm.

Great... looks like dry air is working in, I see  partly clear skies to west of Olathe. :(

Snowing heavily NW of Leavenworth

Has anyone been on the roads in Lee's Summit or Independence?  Are  they just wet or are there slick spots?

My wife's office in Lenexa had some of the roof, sheathing and the rubber membrane blown off.  A lot of water damage inside.  She can see sky from inside. She will be having to relocate for up to a month we think.  At least it happened in the middle of the night so nobody was hurt from the debris was all over.

I was really dissapointed at 5am when the winds were 70mph and no one from KSHB was on the TV telling us what was going on.  There wasn't even a scroll along the bottom. We are at 101st and Nall, and the winds were so scary, that my husband and I got the kids up and went to the basement.  None of the channels were really saying what was going on. KMBC was off air (must have had a technical problem), Fox had a scroll and a map, but that is all. Finally KCTV had a weather person on, and we got the information we needed. That our area was done with the high winds.  Would have been nice if you all had some kind of information.  I never watch anyone but KSHB, but this morning, I had no choice.

Snow has been sitting in the same spot for hours now......its like KC has some kind of force field on Snow

I truly think I could move to Buffalo and stop their lake effect snow

Snow hates me I guess

dont worry heavysnow, that last band that seems to have dissapeared around atchison/st joe was just moving away from the best lift, which is still to the west.  if you notice, the band around topeka, and the one out towards salina are both strengthening.  the low is still to the west and it is moving in.  we have had good snow here at the fort for a while, it will move into the city eventually.  

Storm reminds me of the one that's hit my retirement portfolio.

One third of the roof gone

New Blog !!!!

0.71" inches of rain recorded here in East Lawrence. This is probably unheard of for this time of year. Hve a great day.