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| Event typeevent_type | Heavy Rain |
|---|---|
| NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id | 725,422 |
| Episode IDepisode_id | 120,644 |
| Begin UTCbegin_utc | 2017-10-06T12:00:00+00:00 |
| End UTCend_utc | 2017-10-07T12:00:00+00:00 |
| Statestate | KANSAS |
| County/zone typecz_type | C |
| County/zone namecz_name | MITCHELL |
| Latitudelat | 39.257 |
| Longitudelon | -98.414 |
| End latitudeend_lat | 39.257 |
| End longitudeend_lon | -98.414 |
| Deaths directdeaths_direct | 0 |
| Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect | 0 |
| Injuries directinjuries_direct | 0 |
| Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect | 0 |
| Damage propertydamage_property | 0.00K |
| Damage cropsdamage_crops | 0.00K |
| Weather forecast office sourcewfo_source | CoCoRaHS |
| Episode narrativeepisode_narrative | This Friday evening featured the last severe thunderstorm episode of 2017 within this six-county North Central Kansas area, featuring several hail reports within Osborne, Mitchell and Jewell counties. Hail to at least quarter size was reported in or near Downs, Burr Oak, and Ionia, with larger golf ball size stones near Hunter. In addition, a southwest-northeast oriented swath of heavy rainfall of mainly 2-3 fell across the heart of Mitchell County, including a CoCoRaHS total of 3.20 a few miles north of Hunter. However, there were no ground-truth reports of flooding. ||Turning to event evolution, the first attempts at convective initiation within North Central Kansas occurred as early as 3-4 p.m. CDT, but yielded only a few non-severe storms. However, things soon turned much more active between 5:30-8:00 p.m. CDT as several strong to severe storms lifted north into the area out of central Kansas. This convection consisted of a varied mix of quasi-linear and semi-discrete modes, and even featured at least one embedded supercell that exhibited noticeable radar-indicated rotation as it traversed southern and eastern Mitchell County. However, no tornadic activity was reported. By 8 p.m. CDT, all severe storms had departed off to the east, leaving only showers and non-severe storms lingering within the area until around midnight CDT. ||In the mid-upper levels, this was a strongly-forced event as a large-scale, increasingly-amplified trough traversed the Central Plains from the 6th into the 7th. At the surface, severe convection in North Central Kansas focused mainly just north of a well-defined quasi-stationary front stretched from southwest Kansas to southeast Nebraska. Low-level moisture was abundant across the local area, with surface dewpoints well into the mid-60s to around 70F. As severe storms entered the picture early in the evening, mesoscale analysis indicated around 1000 J/kg mixed-layer CAPE and strong effective deep-layer wind shear of at least 50 knots. |
| Event narrativeevent_narrative | The 24-hour rainfall was 3.20, the vast majority of which fell between 6-10 p.m. CDT. |
| Yearyear | 2,017 |
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