A band of showers and thunderstorms will continue to impact portions of extreme southeast Kansas and western Missouri this evening. Through 7 PM...brief periods of heavy rain and cloud to ground lightning will occur with the stronger storms. Locations likely impacted by this activity includes...Schell City...Nevada...Lamar...Columbus..Liberal...Pittsburg...and Joplin.
Forecast for Pulaski
Updated: 3:06 PM CST on December 23, 2009
Flash Flood Watch in effect through Thursday afternoon...
Late This Afternoon
Periods of showers and scattered thunderstorms. Near steady temperature in the lower 50s. Southeast winds around 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Tonight
Periods of showers and thunderstorms. Locally heavy rainfall possible. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast winds around 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Thursday
Breezy. Periods of thunderstorms in the morning. Periods of rain showers. Highs around 50. Temperature falling into the upper 30s in the afternoon. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Windy. Much colder. Rain likely in the evening. Snow likely. Snow accumulation around 2 inches. Lows around 20. South winds around 20 mph in the evening shifting to the southwest after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Christmas Day
Windy. Much colder. Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs around 30. Southwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
Friday Night
Windy. Mostly cloudy. Lows around 18. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
Saturday
Mostly cloudy. Chance of flurries. Highs in the mid 20s.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy. Chance of flurries. Lows around 17.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows around 16.
Monday
Mostly sunny. Highs around 30.
Monday Night through Wednesday
Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs in the mid 30s.
... Flash Flood Watch remains in effect through Thursday afternoon...
The Flash Flood Watch continues for
* portions of central Missouri... south central Missouri and southwest Missouri... including the following areas... in central Missouri... Camden... Maries... Miller... Phelps and Pulaski. In south central Missouri... Dent... Howell... Oregon... Shannon and Texas. In southwest Missouri... Barry... Christian... Dallas... Douglas... Greene... Laclede... Ozark... stone... Taney... Webster and Wright.
* Through Thursday afternoon
* rainfall amounts of two to three inches with localized higher amounts are expected across south central Missouri and the Eastern Ozarks. Showers will become more widespread by later this evening with the heaviest rain falling tonight and Thursday morning. This excessive rainfall could lead to flash flooding... especially along small streams and low water crossings.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding. Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation.
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should flash flood warnings be issued.
Schaumann
Record Report
Statement as of 4:41 PM CST on December 23, 2009
... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Joplin MO...
a record rainfall of 0.77 inches was set at Joplin MO today. This breaks the old record of 0.50 inches set in 1979.
Public Information Statement
Statement as of 3:51 PM CST on December 23, 2009
... NOAA Weather Radio transmitter in Neosho operational...
NOAA Weather Radio station kjy-82 in Neosho is operational once again.
We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may have caused.