8-16-19 Kansas/Missouri: Targeting severe storms tonight for northern Missouri and portions of Kansas. Details here. N.

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Total rain over the past 24 hours:

Severe storms expected tonight, mainly in circled zone.  

We feel heaviest and most widespread rains will fall in a band over north-central Missouri tonight.  

Total rain through Saturday morning: This is NEW data just in:

We target additional storms Saturday night into Sunday across northwest Missouri, Iowa, and parts of northeast Kansas.  The heaviest storms will evolve into a cluster that dives south into Missouri Sunday morning.  While the model below may be overdone, we do see potential for something of this nature.  

Wind forecast over the next 4 days:

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