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KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-240230-

REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY FOR WESTERN KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1106 AM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLEAR WEDNESDAY EVENING BEFORE SOME CLOUDS MOVE
ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS OVERNIGHT.  A COUPLE OF NARROW BANDS OF
SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED EARLY THIS MORNING MAINLY
EAST OF A GOODLAND TO JETMORE TO MEDICINE LODGE LINE.  THESE BANDS
MOVED EAST AND WERE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AT MID MORNING.  THE
HAYS WATER PLANT HAD PICKED UP 0.10 INCHES OF RAIN.  THERE WAS ALSO
A REPORT OF NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN THE WEST PART OF PRATT.  LOW
TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM 47 DEGREES AT GOODLAND AND HILL CITY TO 56
DEGREES AT MEDICINE LODGE.

A SURFACE RIDGE IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS WILL MOVE INTO
THE MIDWEST AND LOWER MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  WITH LOWER PRESSURE IN THE LEE OF THE
ROCKIES, LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL MOVE UP FROM THE SOUTH INTO THE
CENTRAL PLAINS BRINGING A SMALL CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE PLAINS.  COOLER
TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY.  THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS A WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE
MOVES ACROSS THE AREA.  THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE
FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE TO WESTERN OKLAHOMA.

HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE MAINLY IN THE UPPER 60S AND
LOWER 70S NORTH OF THE OKLAHOMA KANSAS STATE LINE WITH UPPER 70S AND
LOWER 80S FOR MUCH OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN
OKLAHOMA.  LOWS TONIGHT WILL RANGE FROM THE LOWER 50S IN CENTRAL
NEBRASKA TO THE LOWER 60S FROM THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS TO CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA.

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LEE