Slight improvement of the drought conditions were observed across extreme eastern Kansas. However, D2 or severe drought conditions prevailed across the counties, with a small portion of west central Leavenworth County, still in D3 or extreme drought conditions.
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The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.
Slight improvement of the drought conditions were observed across extreme eastern Kansas. However, D2 or severe drought conditions prevailed across the counties, with a small portion of west central Leavenworth County, still in D3 or extreme drought conditions.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 30, 11:21 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1121 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 ...UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION... .DISCUSSION... Short Range (Today through Sunday)... For the weekend a relatively fast zonal flow will be in control of our weather. Satellite imagery and surface observations from this afternoon continue to show a shortwave moving east through the Great Lakes, this being the shortwave responsible for a weak cold front that surface observations highlight wallowing around in far Northern Missouri. Southerly winds nosing into southern Missouri today extend back down to the Gulf, and are helping transport decent late fall moisture north into the Central Plains as evident by the 50+ dewpoints that have surged north today. For Tonight and Saturday...the modest front stalled across far northern Missouri will erode and/or lift north thanks to the induced southerly flow across the Plains ahead of yet another weak shortwave. With 50+ degree dewpoints streaming north, meeting the slowly retreating front, thoughts are that low clouds, fog and drizzle will be on tap for Saturday morning. For late tonight, dense fog may be possible, but given that the wind is not expected to go calm, have only inserted areas of fog for tonight. Evening shift will evaluate this more. Otherwise, have left slight chance POPs going along with the fog and drizzle Saturday morning as there looks to be sufficient moisture such that sites across the region might produce a trace to a few hundredths of an inch of precipitation, even without enough lift for true showers across the region. Southerly wind under the clouds should help keep temperatures above normal normal through the day despite the cloud cover. Sunday...Some of the cloud cover from Saturday should be scoured out by that morning, especially in the northwest corner of Missouri. This will leave behind a nice warm late fall day for everyone enjoyment. Southerly winds will persist through the day, so with partly to mostly clearing skies have continued to keep going forecast highs in the upper half of the 60s and lower 70s. Otherwise, have inserted patchy drizzle into the forecast for late Sunday night/Monday morning as yet another weak shortwave traverses Kansas and Missouri. At this time moisture looks too iffy to warrant any POPs. Cutter Medium Range (Monday through Friday): The quasi-zonal progressive pattern will continue through mid-week before a stronger upper system rolls eastward out of the Gulf of Alaska and carves out a larger trough over the Northern/Central Plains on Thursday. The quasi-zonal pattern will feature a lead shortwave and attendant cold front passing through the CWA on Monday. An unseasonably warm and moist airmass will stream northward ahead of the advancing cold front which will likely result in considerable pre-frontal cloudiness. Still expecting scattered showers to form by afternoon as the right front entrance region of a weak upper jet segment passes overhead. May even hear a rumble of thunder as the front reaches central MO by early evening. The medium range models continue to bottle up the cold air over Canada due to the northern branch of the faster westerlies lying so far north. This combined with an upper level ridge building quickly east across the Rockies and Plains will maintain a rather mild airmass over the region resulting in a continuation of above average temperatures from Tuesday through Thursday. A larger chunk of energy will finally eject across the Northern Rockies and into the Northern and Central Plains sending a stronger cold front into the CWA on Thursday. Have raised up pops some on Thursday/Thursday night. Since the models are showing a positive tilt to the Plains trough with a weak wave moving through in the southern stream think there is a pretty good chance of seeing a post-frontal cold rain through the day on Friday. MJ && .AVIATION... For the 06Z TAFs...MVFR cigs across eastern Kansas are quickly spreading north and east on a 30-35knot southerly LLJ. MVFR cigs will move into terminals by 07Z with vsbys dropping to 4-5SM with light fog. Winds will be light out of the southeast. By 11Z...cigs will fall into low MVFR at MKC and MCI with the onset of light drizzle further reducing vsbys to 3SM. STJ will drop into IFR with vsbys dropping to 2SM. Bufr soundings and MOS guidance also hint at dense fog and LIFR conditions between 12Z-15Z and have added a tempo for 1/2SM and LIFR cigs. Otherwise, conditions are expected to lift back to high MVFR by mid to late afternoon with winds out of the south around 10kts. 73 && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && WFO EAX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 540 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-011200- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-JOHNSON KS- ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-PUTNAM-SCHUYLER- HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON- CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON- RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS- COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 540 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MELL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought D2 conditions prevailed across the county. Atchison received 0.89 of an inch of precipitation.
Drought D2 conditions prevailed across the county. Troy received 1.18 inches of precipitation.
Drought D2 conditions prevailed across the county. Overland Park received 0.86 of an inch of precipitation.
Drought D2 to D3 conditions prevailed across the county. Leavenworth received 0.83 of an inch of precipitation.
Drought D2 conditions prevailed across the county. Centerville received 0.51 of an inch of precipitation.
Drought D2 conditions prevailed across the county. Osawatomie received 0.62 of an inch of precipitation.
Drought D2 conditions prevailed across the county. Bonner Springs received 0.95 of an inch of precipitation.
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