8-22-19: Discussing additional storm threats through the weekend + brief “break” from active weather early next week. N.

Video:

Observed rain over the past 24 hours:

Forecast total rain through 7pm Friday:

We’ll need to be on the lookout for more widespread, heavy areas of storms lined up in western Kansas and central Nebraska Friday night.  

Total rainfall through early next week: (As discussed in video, locally heavier is inevitable for west-central Kansas and central Nebraska from the storms Friday night).  

Drier air returns to the area late Monday-Tuesday of next week:

Wind forecast over the next 4 days:

Temperature data:

Scottsbluff:

Grand Island:

Omaha:

Kansas:

Garden City:

Salina:

Topeka: