A cold front dropped southeast across extreme eastern Kansas, during the morning hours of Septermber 1, 2013. A few severe thunderstorms with damaging winds were observed.
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The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.
A cold front dropped southeast across extreme eastern Kansas, during the morning hours of Septermber 1, 2013. A few severe thunderstorms with damaging winds were observed.
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 Sep 1, 5:43 AM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 643 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013 .SHORT TERM...(Today through Tuesday) Issued at 329 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013 This morning two clusters of showers and thunderstorm are ongoing. The first is extending from north central Iowa into extreme east central Nebraska. The second is across south central Nebraska crossing over into north central Kansas. Both clusters of storms are dropping south-southeastward. Storms are now beginning to fill in between the two clusters of storms across eastern Nebraska and will role into northwest Missouri and northeastern Kansas before daybreak. These storms will be weakening as they arrive so severe weather is not anticipated. However, scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue to drop into the area through the morning hours so have chance POPs across northern Missouri and northeastern Kansas early this morning. Short range models then show showers and thunderstorms diminishing by the mid morning however still kept slight chance POPs in for the late morning in case shower prove to be as persistent as yesterday. These showers and thunderstorms are associated with a surface cold front which will be dropping through the area. Later this afternoon, with daytime heating storms may again develop across the southern part of the CWA along the front so have slight chance to chance POPs across the south this afternoon. This front however will clear the area by this evening with precipitation coming to an end. Temperatures today will still be warm as CAA will be lagging behind the front. Highs will reach into the upper 80s to mid 90s. The rest of the short term looks very tranquil and much more pleasant as a cool surface ridge of high pressure drops into the area from the northern Plains beginning tonight. Highs Monday will be seasonable in the upper 70s to mid 80 with highs in the low to mid 80s on Tuesday. Overnight lows will also be pleasant for opening the windows as lows Monday morning will drop into the upper 50s to mid 60s and drop into the 50s area wide on Tuesday morning as the night time set up will allow for good radiational cooling. .LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Saturday) Issued at 329 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013 Northwest upper flow will quickly lose its influence by midweek as the large scale height field deamplifies. This will allow the subtropical ridge centered over the Four Corners region to gain significant areal coverage, encompassing most of the CONUS south of 70N by the end of the week. Under a very weak upper level height gradient, continental flow will steadily moderate, with temperatures climbing back into the lower 90s by Friday. Precipitation chances look effectively nil through the period, so whatever we get today will be it for a while. && .AVIATION...(For the 12Z TAFS through 12Z Monday Morning) Issued at 641 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013 A rather active morning with thunderstorms ongoing at STJ and will be moving into the KC terminals shortly. Winds will go from calm to gusty west/northwest at 15 to 25 knots with local IFR conditions (mainly visibility restrictions) in heavy rain. Thunderstorms will become more scattered after 13Z, but the threat will continue intermittently through 15Z when a cold front should eliminate the instability. After the initial thunderstorm gusts, winds will be light/variable for a few hours (mainly northwest-north), before becoming steady north with the cold front passage and increase to 10-13 knots this afternoon. VFR conditions are expected from late morning through the remainder of the TAF period with dry air advection likely to suppress any threat of fog tonight. && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. && SHORT TERM...73 LONG TERM...Bookbinder AVIATION...Bookbinder
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 542 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-021045- 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- 542 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING AND AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS THIS MORNING COULD BE SEVERE AND PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEASTERN KANSAS. HOWEVER...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MELL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
449 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013
MOZ001-011-011030-
ATCHISON MO-HOLT MO-
449 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN ATCHISON AND
NORTHWESTERN HOLT COUNTIES UNTIL 530 AM CDT...
AT 448 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PERU...OR 20 MILES WEST OF TARKIO...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL TRACK RIGHT ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER ON THE MISSOURI
AND NEBRASKA BORDER. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS
UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...WITH POTENTIALLY LARGER
HAIL ON THE NEBRASKA SIDE. FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE AREAS WEST OF
INTERSTATE 29.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4049 9569 4049 9567 4022 9532 4014 9544
4019 9549 4024 9548 4025 9555 4029 9556
4031 9561 4030 9565 4031 9566 4034 9563
4041 9566 4043 9565 4045 9565 4047 9570
TIME...MOT...LOC 0947Z 321DEG 21KT 4043 9576
BOOKBINDERThe Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:16 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Structural damage was reported to two barns. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
A ten inch diameter tree limb was reported blown down in the Gardner Cemetary. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
A 71 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Gardner Airport ASOS.
Many large trees were reported blown down across Leavenworth County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, September 2013
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 474952, 474955, 474958, 474956.