000 AWUS83 KEAX 031517 RWSEAX KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-032203- WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1030 AM CDT THU APR 3 2008 CLOUDY SKIES CONTINUED AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM BROUGHT LIGHT RAIN...WITH AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO AND SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. MOST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE AROUND A TENTH OF AN INCH OR LESS...HOWEVER RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM A TENTH TO NEAR...ONE QUARTER INCH. TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE LOW TO MIDDLE 40S. WINDS WERE EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. AS THE STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST...RAIN AND RAINSHOWERS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF MISSOURI TODAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD. THE RAIN WILL END TONIGHT...WITH GRADUAL CLEARING FROM THE NORTHWEST ON FRIDAY. OTHERWISE...CHILLY TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A WARMING TREND INTO THE WEEKEND. THE NEXT THREAT OF RAIN WILL BE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. THE THREAT OF PRECIPITATION APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME...AS THE STORM SYSTEM WILL MAINLY AFFECT AREAS TO THE NORTH. $$