Drought — Saline, Missouri

2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Saline, Missouri

Event narrative

Significant precipitation deficits continued into October with severe to extreme drought persisting through the month. Saline County began October almost entirely within D2 with D3 drought building in over the southern half of the county by October 4th. By the end of October, all of Saline County was either in D2 or D3.

Wider weather episode

Significant precipitation deficits from the summer/early fall months continued into October, with severe drought (D2) continuing and even expanding into extreme drought (D3) for much of the Interstate 70/Missouri River corridor in Missouri and Kansas per the UNL US Drought Monitor. These drought conditions yielded a fairly active fire weather season in October.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1059194. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.