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SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 05/24/07 0015Z
SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678
LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12 2345Z  HANNA
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LOCATION...KANSAS...
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ATTN WFOS...TOP...ICT...DDC...
ATTN RFCS...MBRFC...ABRFC...
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EVENT...EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY RAIN EVENT CONTINUES FROM S STAFFORD COUNTY
ENE INTO CNTRL MARION COUNTY
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SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...LATEST VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGERY SHOWS
THAT QUASISTATIONARY CONVECTIVE COMPLEX CONTINUES TO AFFECT CNTRL KS.
OVER THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF CLOUD CONVECTIVE CLOUD SHIELD FROM TX
PANHANDLE HAS MERGED INTO CNTRL KS COMPLEX WITH SIGNIFICANT DOWNSTREAM
TRAINING EVENT ONGOING OVER CNTRL KS.  MOST CONCERN IS PRESENTLY FROM
THE VIC OF S STAFFORD COUNTY ENE INTO CNTRL MARION COUNTY AS SYSTEM
HAS EVOLVED INTO A MADDOX-MESO HIGH FF PATTERN IN THIS AREA.  LATEST
MESOANALYSIS SHOWS THAT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS BECOME ESTABLISHED FROM N
BUTLER COUNTY TO JUST NORTH OF AAO TO NEAR PTT AND IT THEN INTERSECTS
THE SYNOPTIC FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE VIC OF DDC.  CONVECTION HAS BEEN
CONTINUOUSLY REGENERATING NEAR SYNOPTIC/MESOSCALE BOUNDARY INTERSECTION
AND THEN TRAINING EWARD.  AUTOMATED SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF 4-6" OVER THE
LAST 6HRS FROM RENO TO MARION COUNTY CONFIRMED BY THE INCREDIBLE 7.02"
STORM TOTAL OUT OF HUT.  LATE DAY VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS NUMEROUS
OVERSHOOTING TOPS ALONG AN AXIS FROM STAFFORD TO MARION COUNTY AND BELIEVE
THAT EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ALONG THIS AXIS FOR THE SHORT TERM.
LOCALIZED RAINFALL RATES OF 2-3"/HR ARE POSSIBLE WITH LOCALIZED STORM
TOTALS OF 10" NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION.  WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR.
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SEE NCEP HPC DISCUSSION AND QPF/S FOR FORECAST.
....NESDIS IS A MEMBER OF 12 PLANET....
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SSD/SAB WEB ADDRESS FOR PRECIP ESTIMATES:
HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/PCPN/
...ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT /PS/PCPN/
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LAT...LON 3880 9665 3848 9625 3790 9711 3768 9869 3772 9933 3813
9929 3818 9857 3842 9759
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