Due to the lack of widespread beneficial rain the ongoing severe drought has expanded into a few counties in Kansas. Thus far the impacts have been minimal, but the drought conditions expanded and continued into October.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.
Due to the lack of widespread beneficial rain the ongoing severe drought has expanded into a few counties in Kansas. Thus far the impacts have been minimal, but the drought conditions expanded and continued into October.
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 26, 5:31 PM CST, 6 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 631 PM CDT Mon Sep 26 2022 .Discussion... Issued at 352 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2022 Key Messages: - Pleasant weather is expected through the week with temperatures generally near seasonal normals under mostly clear skies. - Coolest day of the period will be Wednesday with morning lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s and afternoon highs in the 60s. Discussion: A beautiful late September afternoon is underway with temperatures in the low to mid 70s, mostly clear skies, and a northwesterly breeze as we remain under northwest flow aloft on the backside of a trough. Winds will relax this evening, and with clear skies and low humidity overnight lows will fall into the mid 40s to near 50 degrees. As the eastern trough continues to move off to the east, warmer temperatures will nudge their way in tomorrow afternoon from the west, with high temperatures creeping up into the low 80s across eastern KS while northeastern MO remains in the low 70s due to continued influence from the trough. By Tuesday night a stout surface high descends out of Western Ontario and into the Upper Midwest, and will create prime radiational cooling conditions leading to the coolest temperatures we have seen this fall with overnight lows ranging from the mid 30s across NE Missouri to the mid 40s elsewhere. With the infusion of cooler Canadian air on Wednesday, highs are expected to only reach the mid to upper 60s with lows Wednesday night in the upper 30s to mid 40s. A gradual warming trend begins on Thursday with afternoon high temperatures increasing a few degrees each day, with highs returning to the upper 70s to near 80 by the weekend for areas along and south of the Missouri River (mid 70s north of the river) as we get sandwiched between a mid level closed low across the Intermountain West and Hurricane Ian across the Southeast. No rain is expected through the weekend. && .Aviation...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Tuesday Evening) Issued at 631 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2022 VFR conditions expected through the period. && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. && Discussion...BMW Aviation...Blair
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 500 AM CDT Mon Sep 26 2022 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-271000- 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- 500 AM CDT Mon Sep 26 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Due to ongoing lack of rain across the area the severe (D2) drought has expanded into Leavenworth County. So far there have been little to no reports of impacts, but the drought continued into October.
Due to ongoing lack of rain across the area the severe (D2) drought has expanded into Johnson County. So far there have been little to no reports of impacts, but the drought continued into October.
Due to ongoing lack of rain across the area the severe (D2) drought has expanded into Wyandotte County. So far there have been little to no reports of impacts, but the drought continued into October.
Due to ongoing lack of rain across the area the severe (D2) drought has expanded into Linn County. So far there have been little to no reports of impacts, but the drought continued into October.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, September 2022
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: 1058114, 1058115, 1058116, 1058117.