The Kansas City severe weather event of 4 June 1979.

The severe weather and localized flooding which hit Kansas City on the afternoon of 4 June 1979 are investigated through a detailed synoptic scale and mesoscale analysis of the events leading up to the formation of the storms. The results indicate that despite a middle and upper troposphere characterized by weak synoptic scale forcing and an absence of many of the 'classic' severe weather parameters, a line of deep convection developed from north central Kansas through northwest Missouri and into southern Iowa. The key feature was to be found in the lower troposphere in the form of a trough line which has formed along the lee side of the Rocky Mountains and moved eastward into the great Plains area with the approach of an upper level shortwave from the northwest.-from Authors