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<br />Of perhaps more interest this year was the Palmer Short-Term <br />Drought Severity Index, a measure of the more rapid response to <br />shorter period rainfall, or lack of it, virtually week to week. <br />Figure 6 shows how that index changed this season. Beginning May <br />1st the wet areas were shown along the Mississippi River in <br />Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. By early July a moist <br />tongue was developing southwestward from Iowa across northern <br />Missouri and into northeastern and northcentral Kansas, then, by <br />July's end most of the north half of Kansas was relatively wet. In <br />fact flooding had occurred on many streams and rivers not too far <br />north-east of the WKWM target area. That pocket of we!: soil <br />conditions moved further west into the northwestern and westcentral <br />Kansas in August. When the WKWM season ended in September, the <br />really wet area was confined mostly to the northwest part of the <br />state. <br /> <br />====================================================================== <br /> <br />Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin <br /> <br />May 4, 1993 <br /> <br /> <br />CROP MOISTURE <br />(SHORT TERM, CROP NEED VS. AVAILABLE WATER IN S-FT. SOIL PROFILEI <br />Ulyt,1993 <br /> <br />FIG. 6 <br /> <br />Weekly Weather and Crop Bullelln <br /> <br />September 14. 1993 <br /> <br />CROP MOISTURE: <br />tr(l'ICfI_UNollUl'fOMCU'I....IIISI <br />_"""""n...._....,'ICJOG""""=IO.. <br />JUfII,III!l1'O"D1,.-.'.C.....CHNGICONlIO(.......' <br />Wlllll0_f...~...:>c:An.___00I...' <br />'...,___0#__......... <br /> <br /> <br />CROP MOISTURE <br />(SHORT TERM, CROP NEED "'5. AVAilABLE WATER IN 50fT. SOIL PROFILE) <br />September ", 1993' <br /> <br />33 <br />