Just North of KC

On Friday August 20th a rather violent storm rolled through the ‘hood.

Here is a radar image of the storm just before it hit our neighborhood which is approximately at X.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning #0279 was issued by the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill at 1:38 pm that stated:

 AT 135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF AGENCY TO GOWER TO CAMDEN POINT TO
  TRACY...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS HAD A
  HISTORY OF PRODUCING 60 MPH WINDS.

The anemometer from my weather station recorded a gust of 49mph however it lies somewhat in the wind shadow of the house behind us so gusts were probably closer to 70mph.

Luckily we were spared from much damage.  Our patio table was blown over and broken during last Friday’s storm so this weeks storm damage was limited to plants and some siding for us.  I lost at least 3 pepper plants ( 1 red pepper, 1 yellow pepper and 1 pablano), half of the asparagus was blown over as well as some marigolds.  The grapes were blown around and shifted on their supports but they don’t look damaged.  Almost all of our Canna Lilies were blown over and our large banana plant was broke in half.  We also had some siding that had popped loose from the side of the house but did not blow away.  A ladder and a few whacks from my fist were able to beat the siding back into place.  We had right at 3” of rain in the 5 waves of storms that passed through.

Here’s a photo.  The banana plant just below and to the left of the window used to be above the roof, all of the canna’s used to be about 5 feet tall completely covering the concrete and the basement window.

Here is a webcam capture of the banana plant and the rain.

All in all really nothing major from the storm here.  Unfortunately, some in our neighborhood weren’t as lucky as there were several privacy fence sections blown out or damaged, flashing blown off a couple houses and some siding damage that was worse than ours.  Also, several large chunks of corn in the nearby fields was blown over at ground level.  Oh yeah, I almost forgot that a pontoon boat was flipped over at the Park and Sell in Trimble, MO.  Here’s a couple pics of the pontoon.

And here’s a pic of corn that’s blown over.

A full account of the storm can be found here.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/2010-O-NEW-KEAX-SV-W-0279.html#2010-O-NEW-KEAX-SV-W-0279