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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY FOR EASTERN KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
500 AM CDT THU APR 3 2008

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVED NORTHEAST OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST 
KANSAS DURING THE NIGHT. THE RAINS WERENT HEAVY...BUT BECAUSE THIS 
ACTIVITY CROSSED THE SAME AREAS IN A CONVEYOR BELT MANNER...SOME AREAS 
RECEIVED SOME SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL. IN FACT...A BAND OF ONE TO TWO INCH 
RAINFALLS STRETCHED FROM SOUTHWEST MONTGOMERY COUNTY TO NORTHEAST 
LABETTE COUNTY. OVERALL...LOW THICK CLOUDS AND MOISTURE LADEN SOUTHEAST 
WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH LIMITED TEMPERATURES TO BETWEEN 45 AND 50 DEGREES.

VOLATILE WEATHER WILL RETURN TO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON 
AS A STRENGTHENING MID-LEVEL DISTURBANCE...MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE 
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES...INDUCES A WARM FRONT TO SURGE NORTH FROM
EASTERN OKLAHOMA TO EASTERN KANSAS AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS MORNING. AS
THE DISTURBANCE CONTINUES ITS SOUTHEAST TREK THE WARM FRONT WILL 
TRANSITION INTO A COLD FRONT...THAT WILL RACE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE RED 
RIVER LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...LIKELY SEVERE WITH VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING 
WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS...WILL LIGHT SKIES OVER THE SOUTHEAST FOURTH 
OF THE GREAT PLAINS...AND WILL CONTINUE WELL INTO THIS EVENING. FLASH 
FLOOD WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA...FAR SOUTHEAST 
KANSAS....NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI. WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN
WILL DAMPEN MOST OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE GREAT PLAINS.

WITH CLOUDY SKIES AND WINDS THATLL SWING AROUND TO THE NORTH BETWEEN 10
AND 20 MPH...HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS WILL
ONLY REACH THE MID AND UPPER 40S. IN SHARP CONTRAST...SOUTHEAST OF THE 
COLD FRONT...HIGHS ACROSS MOST OF OKLAHOMA WILL REACH THE 70S.

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