Good Morning Bloggers. Happy Father’s Day! Make it a great one.
In honor of Dad’s Day, here’s a pic of my dad…and mom…and all 11 kids. It was taken Friday Night at my parents’ 50th anniversary party. We go oldest to youngest left to right! Someone call awkwardfamilyphotos.com!
The last time we were all together was 3 years ago…hence our enthusiasm for this family photo.
Our Father’s Day Checklist:
1. Near 90 this afternoon
2. Humid – heat index mid-90s
3. 30% chance t-storms
The highest threat for organized severe weather this afternoon will be just ahead of a warm front and east of a surface low near the South Dakota/Minnesota border today. Instability here will climb this afternoon,and wind shear profiles are favorable for “initially discrete supercells with a risk for very large hail…and a risk for tornadoes in the 5pm-9pm timeframe” as described by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, OK.
The SPC has also issued a “Public Severe Weather Outlook” for this area as they do when they believe it may turn into a dangerous situation.
As for KC, we’ll have a good amount of instability to work with as well, so with any t-storms that get going, there is an outside chance for an isolated severe t-storm pulsing up and back down. All in all for KC, a few isolated/widely scattered t-storms would be possible 2pm – 8pm.
Forecasting models aren’t predicting widespread heavy rain in KC later today. Many of these models, however, do not have the resolution to pick out heavy rainfall amounts that fall over very small areas, which would be possible.
For instance, check this out, it’s the rainfall estimates from the last 24 hours. In particular, last night’s storms just south of Butler:
While most of us had no rain last night, a very isolated area of Vernon County pushed nearly 7″, prompting ongoing flood warnings for creeks in that area.
In the outside chance any strong t-storms do erupt anywhere near KC, we’ll have an update for you. Otherwise, have a great Father’s Day!
-GW
That’s a big family. I’m looking foward to having a great fathers day.
And it would be nice to get a few showers.
Wow! That is a big family!! Great picture though!
WOW George you have a really big family. I am looking forward to a great and joyful fathers day today to, it would be nice to have a shower or thunderstorm possibly popig up today but i could really do without the severe threat. We will all see what happens today.
Brad
Great family pic George! 10 brothers and sisters? That’s amazing.
We had a nice down pour yesterday afternoon/early evening here in Lee’s Summit. It was very isolated and very heavy. At one point when I turned onto my street I had to slow down to about 5 mph because I just could not see, it was raining that heavy. When I got to my house half a block down, the sun was shining with rain. It stopped almost as fast as it popped up.
By the way, when are you going to make Storm Shield for droid? It looks kind of cool but I am not changing over to an Apple device just to use it.
its coming! according to their facebook page it will be soon.
Great family pic! The TWC is calling for an 80% chance of rain. That’s a wide spread between KSHB and TWC. We’ll see….
Hey Weatherfreak01,
I live in Lee’s Summit, and in my area yesterday, we had just sprinkles, nothing else… no heavy down pour in my neighborhood!
Weatherwatcher,
Sorry to hear that. I live near Missouri Town and we got about an inch of rain based on the water that was in the buckets that I had outside. When I left Walgreens in Blue Springs about 5 p.m. it was just sprinkling. On the way home the rain got heavier and heavier and we even had a few pea sized pieces of hail about 15 seconds before it was raining so hard we could not see. Luckily we live in a very quiet neighborhood traffic wise so I was not worried about other motorist when I had to slow down to 5 mph because of the rain. Hopefully we will get more rain today. It is clouding up outside.
Yesterdays tiny cell even flipped over and moved a patio table and a chair 8 feet, plus it put small tree branches into the pool and knocked over a few other things we had outside. Like I said, it was a very small cell but it was pretty strong for it’s size.
I’m gonna call BS , we didnt get 1 inch at my house just east of missouri town.We had a little shower but not 1 inch
Czar,
You can call BS all you want. Everything I said is true. I don’t think there was any water in the bucket by the pool before the down pour. And when I went outside to take care of the pool this afternoon the bucket had about an inch of water in it. We had more than a “little shower” here at the house. My husband described it as sheets of rain to me when we got home. I know what my girls and I experienced driving home. A mile from home and it was just light rain. With in a block or two of the house, it was a heavy down pour.
I forgot to ask something… Are the particulates that are being thrown up into the atmosphere from the CO and NM fires going to affect our weather at all?
Royals take 2 out of 3 from the champs. Long game today, but good ending. The Royals are 27-21 since the 12 game losing streak. That’s progress.
Since Wednesday, we have missed every chance of rain possible. Amazing!! Many throughout KS./Mo./Iowa/and Neb. had plenty. Now, have a prime set-up, nothing to trigger development today.
Unlucky times 10>>>
Henley,
According to the 18z GFS, nothing the next 16 days. Maybe we can get lucky and see a tropical storm come through Texas and then truck this way.
Thanks Mike, yes a TS is probably our only hope and it seems those rarely affect us
I was afraid this was going to happen…its going to be a tough summer.
As I’ve been saying for weeks now, drought by mid July, driest Summer on record.
Yawn, wake me up when there is something exciting in the weather and weather pattern. This next streach of fantastic and hot week is starting to become depressing for me we need rain and bad.