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Logan
County escapes potentially dangerous storms again
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[AUG. 4, 2003]
No major damages were
reported from storms that rolled through Logan County both Saturday
and Sunday. ESDA Director Dan Fulscher said that we were lucky; the
storms were potentially dangerous and could have caused more damage,
but they dissipated when they got here. They did provide enough rain
so that crews didn’t have to water the demo derby track at the fair
Sunday evening.
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The National Weather Service was kept
busy issuing alerts, watches and warning each day. The storms were
created by an unseasonable high pressure sitting over the Great
Lakes. As the day heats up and clouds form, the addition of cold air
develops them into thunderstorms. More of the same is forecast for
this afternoon, but the effect is dissipating, so the possible
storms are not expected to be as severe, Patrick Bak from the
National Weather Service said.
Saturday's midafternoon storm blew in
out of the northwest with wind gusts at approximately 35-40 mph and
a brief but torrential rain accumulating to 1.1 inch at Lincoln
Rural firehouse and .51 inch at the National Weather Service
office. Some three-fourths-inch hail was reported in Lincoln, Bak
said.
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Sunday was a near repeat of Saturday,
starting with a later afternoon thunderstorm that delivered like
winds and rain. Starting around 7:30 more storms moved into the
area. Spotters watched for funnel formation though none was
confirmed.
The accumulated rain for Sunday was .6
inch at the National Weather Service, 1.1 inch again at the Lincoln
Rural firehouse and .38 inch at Mount Pulaski.
Higher winds
gusting to 65 mph were reported near the intersection of Interstate
155 and Route 136 near Emden in the later storm.
[Jan
Youngquist]
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