Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...FLOOD WATCH... CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 555 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2003
... FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING...

IN MISSOURI:

BUCHANAN... CALDWELL... CARROLL... .CHARITON... CLAY... CLINTON... COOPER... HENRY... HOWARD... JOHNSON... LAFAYETTE... LINN... LIVINGSTON... M ACON... PETTIS... PLATTE... RANDOLPH... RAY AND SALINE.

IN KANSAS:

ATCHISON... DONIPHAN AND LEAVENWORTH.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN IN PLEASANT HILL HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WATCH... NOW EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING... FOR THE FOLLOWING...

IN MISSOURI:

BATES... CASS AND JACKSON.

IN KANSAS:

JOHNSON... LINN... MIAMI AND WYANDOTTE.

LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL ACROSS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS... WEST CENTRAL... CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH THE LATE MORNING. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS... WHILE A BAND OF RADAR ESTIMATED ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 6 INCHES WAS INDICATED ALONG AND 20 MILES TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TONGANOXIE... TO DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY... TO WAVERLY. REDEVELOPMENT OF A COMPLEX OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON... WITH AREAS OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED... WITH LOCAL STORM TOTALS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ON TOP OF SATURATED GROUND POSES THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD FLOODING.

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WATCH AREA... WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLOODING ALONG AREA RIVERS. IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA... CHECK YOUR PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS... ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE INTERESTS ALONG AREA RIVERS. KEEP INFORMED... AND BE READY FOR ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF A FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED....


Sounds like a beautiful day for baseball. Let's play two.