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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - Posts

• Electircal storm as midnight approaches

  Wow bloggers, It has been a rather exciting day.  Thunderstorms are now moving into southern half of the Kansas City metro area, and increasing across Johnson county, crossing the state line into Jackson county.  Some areas have already had Read More posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:19 PM by glezak | 203 Comments

• Severe Wx Threat Continues...Huge Fire!

  Watch NBC this evening for the latest weather information as we track severe thunderstorms and also show live pictures of the huge fire near the Fairfax GM plant in KCK! What a night!  Skytracker has been chasing wall clouds all night and we have Read More posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:11 PM by glezak | 236 Comments

• First T-Storm breaks through cap

  Good evening bloggers, If you have severe weather photos from the storms this evening please send them to lezak@nbcactionnews.com Please tune into NBC tonight as we will cut into programming with any warnings to keep everyone safe! Go to  severestorms.com/livechase   Read More posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:50 PM by glezak | 440 Comments

• 1:45 PM thoughts June 3, 2008

  Good afternoon bloggers, It is an extremely muggy, partly cloudy, and dry (so far) afternoon.  Cumulus clouds are developing rapidly, high based altocumulonimbus clouds (I call them that since they have little anvils) are around showing instability, Read More posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:38 PM by glezak | 158 Comments

• Moderate Risk Today

  Good morning bloggers, The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed our local region in a moderate risk for severe thunderstorms.  Look below at the risk areas:  The SPC has put a significant risk for tornadoes in areas just east of Kansas Read More posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:29 AM by glezak | 57 Comments

• Extremely high bases showers

  Good morning bloggers, We have a fairly significant cap (warm air aloft) that has taken over today. Amazingly there are scattered showers with bases of 15,000 to 20,000 feet.  It is like we have, what I sometimes call, "cirro cumulonimbus" clouds Read More posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:53 AM by glezak | 19 Comments