Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 24, 2009

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1232 PM CDT WED JUN 24 2009

.UPDATE...
UPDATED FOR 18Z AVIATION.

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.DISCUSSION...
SEE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION.

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.AVIATION...

WINDS VARIABLE IN THE PERIOD AS AREA EXPERIENCES OUTFLOW FROM
STORMS TO THE NORTH WITH LARGER SCALE SOUTH TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW.
MHK REMAINS WESTERNMOST FROM CURRENT OUTFLOWS AND WILL KEEP
PREVAILING SW. EXPECT STORMS MAIN TRACK TO BE ACROSS FAR NE KS BUT
CANNOT RULE OUT AFTERNOON ISOLD SHRA/TSRA AS CAP BREAKS. WILL
CARRY CB AT THIS TIME AS EXPECT TO BE ISOLD OR FOCUSED ON A
BOUNDARY...WHICH ARE CURRENTLY BETWEEN TAF SITES. 67

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.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 334 AM CDT WED JUN 24 2009/

DISCUSSION...

OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTION IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS MORNING WERE MERGING JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY
81 IN REPUBLIC COUNTY AND NORTH INTO NEBRASKA. THIS HAS TOUCHED OFF
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE
STORM OVER NEBRASKA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST THIS
MORNING AHEAD OF A SHORTWAVE IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. THIS COULD LAY AN
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA LATER THIS MORNING NORTH OF
HIGHWAY 24. ALSO EXISTING STORMS MAY LAY OUT ADDITIONAL BOUNDARIES
AS WELL ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. WILL MENTION
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST KANSAS.

THIS AFTERNOON...FORECAST SOUNDINGS YIELD CAPES IN THE 1500 TO
2000 J/KG RANGE. THE CAP GOES AWAY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND LIKELY
TO GET STORMS DEVELOPING ALONG ANY RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER
FROM THE MORNING CONVECTION. WILL GO WITH A BLANKET SLIGHT CHANCE
THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE CWA. BETTER CHANCES FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL
BE ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A
FRONTAL BOUNDARY. CORFIDI VECTORS WOULD MOVE STORMS SOUTHEAST AND
INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS. BEST MOISTURE TRANSPORT WILL BE IN THE
MOISTURE PLUME ON THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE UPPER HIGH. BOT GFS AND
NAM KEEP THE PLUME TO THE NORTH OF THE CWA...BUT STORMS THAT DEVELOP
NORTH OF THE BORDER WILL SLIDE INTO KANSAS. THEREFORE HAVE INCREASED
PRECIPITATION CHANCES THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT IN THE NORTHEAST.

THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES SOUTH INTO THE CWA ON THURSDAY AND HANGS
UP JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70S. DEW POINTS WILL LIKELY POOL ALONG
THE BOUNDARY AND MAY SEND HEAT INDICES NEAR 110 DEGREES AGAIN ON
THURSDAY. MOST OF AREA WILL REMAIN NEAR 105 AGAIN.

TODAY THE THICKNESSES ARE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY AND WILL HAVE HEAT
INDICES NEAR 105 TO 110 AGAIN TODAY. MOISTURE POOLING ALONG ANY
BOUNDARIES MAY SEND THE VALUES EVEN HIGHER THAN 110. WILL LEAVE
EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING GOING THROUGH THURSDAY ATTM. WITH THE UPPER
HIGH MOVING BACK EAST THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AND THICKNESSES
INCREASING SOME WILL SEE THE HOT WEATHER CONTINUE INTO THE END OF
THE WEEK. LATER SHIFTS MAY HAVE TO EXTEND ANOTHER DAY.

FORECAST FOR THE WEEKEND STILL LOOKS ON TRACK AS SHORTWAVE TROUGHS
MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS SUPPRESS THE UPPER HIGH SOUTHWARD
AND SEND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO KANSAS ON SATURDAY. SO WILL LEAVE
THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES GOING FOR THE WEEKEND. NO CHANGES MADE
BEYOND SUNDAY.

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.TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7
PM THURSDAY FOR KSZ008-KSZ009-
KSZ010-KSZ011-KSZ012-KSZ020-KSZ021-KSZ022-KSZ023-KSZ024-KSZ026-
KSZ034-KSZ035-KSZ036-KSZ037-KSZ038-KSZ039-KSZ040-KSZ054-KSZ055-
KSZ056-KSZ058-KSZ059.

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
453 AM CDT WED JUN 24 2009

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-251000-
REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-
POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-
WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON-
453 AM CDT WED JUN 24 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED AGAIN THIS
AFTERNOON. NIGHTTIME HEAT INDICES IN THE UPPER 70S ARE EXPECTED
TONIGHT. AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY AND
TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE
OUTLOOK AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY NORTH OF A CONCORDIA TO HOLTON LINE. DAMAGING
WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED
OUT. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AND
COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ON THURSDAY. AN EXCESSIVE
HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.