1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 23, 2:21 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 321 AM CDT FRI AUG 23 2002 321 AM... MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS AT THIS POINT ARE WITH CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION TODAY AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT HAS BEEN SITTING IN NEBRASKA AND IOWA IS FINALLY MOVING IN RESPONSE TO SLIGHTLY STRONGER NORTHERN STREAM WAVE THAT 500 MB PROFILERS SHOWS IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA AT THIS TIME. BIG QUESTION OF HOW QUICKLY THIS FRONT WILL DROP INTO AREA TODAY. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT BOUNDARY HAS PROGRESSED INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF FORECAST AREA. OUTFLOW FROM CONVECTION IN NEBRASKA AND IOWA SEEMS TO BE HELPING WITH THIS MOVEMENT. WEAK SURFACE WAVE ON THE BOUNDARY IN KANSAS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING...WHICH SHOULD HELP DRAW FRONT SOUTHWARD IN ITS WAKE. THUS THINK BY EARLY AFTERNOON...BOUNDARY SHOULD BE RUNNING FROM A MACON TO KANSAS CITY LINE...AND SHOULD BE SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA BY EARLY EVENING. AVN SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST HANDLE ON THE UPPER WAVE AND POSITION OF THE SURFACE FRONT. 00Z ETA SEEMED TOO STRONG WITH WAVE IN NEBRASKA AND WAS TOO FAST WITH THE INFLUX OF DRIER AIR. WILL SLOW DOWN THE MOVEMENT OF PRECIPITATION THROUGH FORECAST AREA TODAY FROM WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY GOING BASED ON THE TREND OF THE FRONT AND AVN MOISTURE FIELDS. TONIGHT...AFTER ANY REMAINING RAIN ENDS EARLY IN THE EVENING IN SOUTHERN PART OF FORECAST AREA...DRY WITH SHOULD PREVAIL WITH SURFACE FRONT WELL SOUTH AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGE DEVELOPING. FORECAST MODELS DIVERGE ON SATURDAY WITH A CONVECTIVELY INDUCED VORT MAX DEVELOPING UNDER THIS RIDGE. ETA HAS THIS MAX IN NEBRASKA...WHILE AVN HAS IT IN KANSAS. INTERESTINGLY...BOTH MODELS LOOK FAIRLY SIMILAR IN THEIR QPF FIELDS DESPITE THESE DIFFERENCES. WILL HAVE PRECIPITATION IN FOR SOUTHWEST THIRD OF FORECAST AREA TO COVER THE POSSIBILITY OF AREA GETTING CLIPPED BY THE STORMS AS THEY SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST AS THE UPPER WAVE COMES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEEPER SHORT WAVE ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY. FOR SUNDAY...MODELS WANT TO BRING YET ANOTHER WAVE UNDER THE UPPER RIDGE...WITH THIS WAVE MOVING RIGHT ACROSS FORECAST AREA. WILL LEAVE THE CURRENT AREA WIDE PRECIPITATION WE HAVE GOING FOR THE DAY...AND DRY SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE UPPER WAVE SHOULD BE PAST REGION BY THEN. THIS WAVE IS FORECAST TO CARVE OUT A TROUGH IN THE SOUTHEAST WITH RIDGING BUILDING IN BEHIND ACROSS FORECAST AREA. THIS SHOULD BRING DRY WEATHER FOR THE START OF THE WORK WEEK. WITH MODELS NOT IN GREAT AGREEMENT WITH THE COMPLEX PATTERN...CONFIDENCE ON PRECIPITATION IS NOT THAT HIGH...SO WILL GO WITH JUST CHANCE POPS FOR THE PACKAGE. TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO BE TRICKY...ESPECIALLY TODAY WITH FRONT COMING THROUGH REGION. SINCE WE ARE STARTING OFF QUITE WARM...WILL LEAN TOWARD WARMER ETA GUIDANCE. PC .EAX... KS...NONE. MO...NONE.
MOZ001>003-011-230500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1140 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 629 HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS OF 1140 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING. COUNTIES NO LONGER UNDER THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE... IN MISSOURI: ATCHISON...HOLT...NODAWAY AND WORTH. THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA.
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous power lines and trees down...in an area from 42nd Street to 44th Terrace near Noland Road.
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