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Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats for the Plains and Southeast

A frontal boundary extending from the western High Plains to the Southeast will focus additional showers and thunderstorms this weekend. Some of these storms may become severe, alongside frequent lightning, and isolated instances of flash flooding. Meanwhile dry conditions will continue for the Great Basin where fire weather concerns linger. For the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, seasonable weather. Read More >

NWS Topeka will end production of the Regional Weather Summary (RWSKS) on Dec 31st.

What is the Regional Weather Summary? Please see the example below.

KANSAS STATE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 411 AM CST Thu Dec 15 2016 .Today...Mostly sunny. Highs from the mid 20s northeast to the upper 40s southwest. .Tonight...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle or freezing drizzle south central after midnight. Lows from the lower 20s northeast to the upper 30s southwest. .Friday...Mostly cloudy central and east. A slight chance of freezing drizzle and drizzle in the morning, then drizzle in the afternoon. Partly to mostly cloudy west. Highs from the mid 30s far northeast to the lower 70s far southwest. .Friday Night...Turning colder. CLoudy. A slight chance of drizzle and freezing drizzle north central, northeast and east central. A chance of freezing rain during the evening northwest, then light snow after midnight. Lows from around 2 above northwest to the lower 30s southeast.

Alternative sources of weather information for the state of Kansas can be found at https://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/kansas.php

For traditional text weather forecasts please visit our Kansas webpages at https://www.weather.gov/

Finally, there is another method of generating a text weather forecast for a user defined area of the state. To check this out visit http://www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=top

If you have any questions please contact chad.omitt@noaa.gov