During the early afternoon hours of the 10th a storm developed just north of Eudora. As it drifted over the town an microburst damaged trees within a small area of town.
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During the early afternoon hours of the 10th a storm developed just north of Eudora. As it drifted over the town an microburst damaged trees within a small area of town.
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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 5:41 AM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 641 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2015 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION FORECAST DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM...(TODAY AND TONIGHT) ISSUED AT 348 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2015 STILL APPEARS AT LEAST SOME CHANCE FOR CONVECTION REMAINS IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WITH WET LOW LEVELS AND RATHER UNSTABLE AIRMASS BASED NEAR THE SURFACE WITH 2000-3000 J/KG CAPE AROUND 500M AGL PER SPC MESOANALYSIS. LATEST TRENDS SHOWING SOME DEVELOPMENT TO THE EAST WITH MOST ROBUST AND PERSISTENT ACTIVITY NEAR SYNOPTIC FRONT OVER SOUTHERN KANSAS IN DEEPER SFC-850MB CONVERGENCE. DEEP-LAYER SHEAR MAY BE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SOME STORM ORGANIZATION WITH CONTINUED VERY HIGH FREEZING LEVELS KEEPING HAIL A LESSER CONCERN THAN WIND. AS NORTH TO NORTHWEST TRAJECTORIES PERSIST THROUGH THE DAY...MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN WITH LAPSE RATES DECREASING FOR DECREASING PRECIP POTENTIAL. AIRMASS ONLY SLIGHTLY COOLER HOWEVER AND STILL LOOK FOR HIGHS IN THE MID 80S TO AROUND 90. DESPITE CLEAR SKIES...WINDS OFF THE SURFACE SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP ANY FOG IN CHECK TONIGHT WITH WIDESPREAD LOWS FINALLY BACK INTO THE 60S. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY) ISSUED AT 348 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2015 NOT MUCH CHANGE TO THE FORECAST DURING THE TUESDAY THROUGH NEXT SUNDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES AND A TROUGH IN THE EASTERN CONUS WITH NORTHWEST FLOW OVER EASTERN KANSAS WILL CHARACTERIZE MUCH OF THE WEEK. A SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE GREAT LAKES REGION INTO THE PLAINS WILL BE IN PLACE INTO EARLY THURSDAY THEN BEGIN TO MOVE OFF TO THE EAST SLOWLY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. UPSLOPE FLOW INTO THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES ALONG WITH A WEAK WAVES MOVING AROUND THE RIDGE IN THE HIGH PLAINS WILL SUSTAIN CONVECTION ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS TUESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MODELS KEEP THE PRECIPITATION WEST OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WITHIN THE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY AXIS. HEIGHTS WILL GRADUALLY RISE DURI9NG THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK AS RIDGING OCCURS ACROSS THE PLAINS AS AN EASTERN PACIFIC TROUGH MOVES INTO THE NORTHWEST. THEREFORE WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST FOR THROUGH NEXT SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER THAN NORMAL THROUGH THURSDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND LOWS IN THE 60S. WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED RIDGING FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TEMPERATURES WILL WARM BACK INTO THE LOWER 90S FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z TUESDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 641 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2015 NEXT FEW HOURS WILL LIKELY BRING AT LEAST TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS IN MIST AND/OR CEILINGS WITH STILL RATHER MOIST LOWER LEVELS AND LIGHT WINDS IN PLACE...AND SATELLITE IMAGERY AND UPSTREAM OBSERVATIONS SHOWING BANDS OF STRATUS. SOME LARGE BREAKS IN THE STRATUS AND VARYING HEIGHTS MAKE FOR A DIFFICULT FORECAST. HAVE GONE WITH IFR TEMPO AT TOP AND FOE AND MVFR AT MHK BASED ON BULK OF SURFACE OBS. STILL ANTICIPATE MVFR STRATUS TO AROUND 17Z AS MIXING TAKES PLACE...BUT VFR SHOULD RULE THEREAFTER. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...65 LONG TERM...53 AVIATION...65
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 438 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2015 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-110945- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 438 AM CDT MON AUG 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TOP/SITREP
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:22 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tree damage including large limbs in Eudora.
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