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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY FOR EASTERN KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
505 AM CDT MON MAY 20 2013

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH
OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE NIGHT. ONE THUNDERSTORM OVER
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY WAS SEVERE AS IT PRODUCED GOLFBALL-SIZED HAIL IN THE
TOWN OF CHAUTAUQUA. MINOR LOCALIZED FLOODING OCCURRED IN SEDAN. CLOUDY
SKIES STILL COVERED EASTERN KANSAS WHILE THE REST OF THE AREA GRADUALLY
CLEARED IN A WEST TO EAST MANNER. TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE LOWER TO
MID 60S IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TO THE MID 50S IN CENTRAL KANSAS
AS VARIABLE WINDS AROUND 10 MPH OR LESS PREVAILED.

MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FROM THE
EASTERN PLAINS TO CENTRAL TEXAS. SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
AND THE EASTERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA ARE AT GREATEST RISK...WHERE GOLFBALL
SIZED HAIL...60 TO 70 MPH WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REST OF THE PLAINS...A FEW
OF WHICH MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. THE CULPRITS ARE A FAIRLY INTENSE UPPER
CYCLONE SPINNING OVER NEBRASKA AND IOWA THAT WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT EAST
ACROSS THE KANSAS REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S ARE FORECAST FOR MOST AREAS WHILE THE NORTHWEST
SECTIONS WILL REACH THE MID AND UPPER 60S. A WIDE OF LOWS IS FORECAST
FOR TONIGHT. SOUTHEAST OF THE COLD FRONT LOWS IN THE LOWER AND MID 60S
ARE FORECAST FROM SOUTHERN MISSOURI TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA...WHERE SOUTH
TO SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH SHOULD LIMIT LOWS TO THE LOWER AND MID
60S. NORTHWEST OF THE FRONT...NORTHWEST WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH
WILL PUSH LOWS INTO THE LOWER 50S IN MOST AREAS WITH WESTERN NEBRASKA
AND NORTHWEST KANSAS DROPPING TO NEAR 40 DEGREES.

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