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University Daily Kansan, March 28, 1983
Lawrence escapes severe weather
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Texas and southern Kansas were whipped by violent thunderstorms and tornadoes this weekend. Nebraska and Iowa were smothered by a spring snow storm. But the Lawrence area eluded the severe weather with only gray skies, rain and a few snow flurries.
And this week Lawrence can expect a slight warming trend, Joe Eagleman, chairman of the KU department of meteorology, said yesterday. The weather is moving upward at a slowing storm, not part of an extended pattern of cold weather.
Eagleman said that slow-moving storms with both snow and severe thunderstorms were characteristic of this time of year.
He said that based on curren
patterns in the upper atmosphere, Kansas could have an extended stormy season this spring, but not much more cold weather.
FOR THIS WEEK, the rain and snow flurries should end, but temperatures will remain below normal, said Weather Service director in Topeka. Weather Service forecaster in Topeka.
The forecast for the next few days is for decreasing cloudiness with temperatures gradually building to the 60°F level. Winds are expected to remain gassy.
The normal high temperature for this time of year is 58 and the normal low.34.
Lawrence received 1.88 inches of rain on Friday and Saturday, according to weather service records. High temperatures were in the mid-40s and lows were in the mid-30s. Other areas of the country had
Other areas of the country much worse weather this weekend.
Four people were injured and 50 homes were damaged Saturday afternoon after a tornado struck Frontenac, a community of 2,370 just north of Pittsburgh. Damage was estimated at $1 million.
THE TORNADO, THE second to hit the area in slightly more than a year, destroyed mobile homes, a farmhouse and a restaurant.
Several homes near Houston also were damaged Saturday when a severe thunderstorm spawned a tornado.
Parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota were covered with a blanket of snow up to two feet with the rest of the ground was reported near Omaha. Neb.
The severe weather was caused by an intense low pressure system that moved southward over the day. The storm then moved east along the Kansas-Oklahoma border and
then to central Missouri, Crandall said.
The pull of the low pressure system brought moist air up from the Gulf of Mexico, which then mixed with Arctic air brought from the north by the jet stream, an upper level path of rapidly moving air.
HE SAID LAWRENCE MISSED the brunt of the bad weather because the low pressure system triggering the storms passed almost over the area.
"The center of the low is not normally a heavy weather-producing area," Crandall said.
The storm system also brought heavy rains to Georgia, South Carolina and northern Florida. Flash flood watches were issued after some areas received more then two inches of rain.
Information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
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