Tuesday, June 12, 2007

KANSAS CITY'S WEATHER: Torrential Rains Not That Far Away

Once again overnight- and continuing this morning- a virtually stationary band of showers and thunderstorms sat over north-central into southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri.

As shown on the Kansas City NWS graphic below- Doppler radar rain-estimates as much as 9-inches of rain has fallen in isolated areas of southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri.

There are number of flood or flash-flood warnings still in effect this Tuesday in southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas.

The precip area is trying to work it's way northeast - it's now in the southern and southwestern MetroRegion counties- Linn- Franklin to Shawnee counties KS..

There is a weak mid to low level low-pressure disturbance causing all this rain- it continues to meander around northeast to north Oklahoma into south and southeastern Kansas.

This disturbance will remain close to us again today through tomorrow and an eye will have to be kept if a band of showers and storms develop closer toward Metro K.C...



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