HDR1012000170101114951200WEEKLY WEATHER & CROP BULLETIN HDR2012000170101114951200NAT. AGRI. SUMMARY NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SUMMARY November 6 - 12, 1995 HIGHLIGHTS: Favorable conditions across the Nation for much of the week allowed the row crop harvests to advance toward completion. Rain and snow at the end of the week delayed fieldwork across the eastern third of the Nation. Dry conditions remained over the southern Great Plains, causing stress to the winter wheat crop. The winter wheat crop emerged in the 19 major producing States was 84 percent(%) complete, up 5 percentage points from the previous week and equal to the 5-year average. Dry conditions hindered crop emergence in southwest Missouri and hindered growth in Kansas and Texas. Continued wet conditions hindered planting in the Southeast. Wheat condition in the 19 major producing States declined from last week and was rated as 54% good to excellent. Crop condition in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas declined due to continued dry weather. The corn crop in the 17 major producing States was 94% harvested, up 7 points from the previous week and 12 points ahead of the average. Dry, cold conditions early in the week, allowed the harvest to increase by at least 10 points in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio. Only in Missouri and Texas is harvest progress behind the average. More cold weather is needed in Wisconsin to freeze wet fields and allow the harvest to finish. Cotton harvested at 71% complete was up 6 points from the previous week and 1 point behind the average. The harvest advanced by at least 10 points in California, the Southwest, and Oklahoma. Rains hindered harvest activities in the Southeast and Arizona. Producers in Texas reported some greenboll problems. Sorghum acreage harvested at 95% complete, up 4 points from last week, was 6 points ahead of the average. The recent cold conditions in Oklahoma allowed fields to dry down and the harvest to increase by 29 points. Continued cold, dry conditions are needed in South Dakota to finish the harvest. Soybeans harvested at 94% complete was up 3 points from the previous week and 2 points ahead of the average. Weekend rains in the Southeast hindered the harvest. Progress in the Southeast was 14 to 29 points behind the average. HDR2012000170101114951200NAT. WEATHER SUMMARY National Weather Summary Volume 82, No. 46 November 5 - 11, 1995 For additional information, call (202) 720-7917. Highlights: A pair of strong, fast-moving storms traversed the northern United States and southern Canada. Their active trailing cold fronts delivered wet, and occasionally violent, weather to the East; and windy weather with sharp temperature fluctuations to the Plains. Winter wheat in the central and southern High Plains continued to suffer from high winds and lack of soil moisture. Elsewhere, heavy rain caused flooding in the Pacific Northwest, while heavy snow blanketed peaks and passes from Washington to Utah and Colorado. Significantly above-normal temperatures were confined to the West, where a dozen daily-record highs were set. On Sunday, highs remained below freezing as far south as Dayton, OH (31 degrees F), and climbed only to 50 degrees F in Charleston, SC and 52 degrees F in Houston, TX. In Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, a trace of frozen precipitation (sleet) fell 4 days earlier than ever recorded. Warmth quickly returned to the South, however, in advance of a strong cold front. On Tuesday, Galveston, TX notched a daily record (84 degrees F), but farther east, thunderstorms--which spawned more than two dozen tornadoes--swept across the Southeast. Storm-total rainfall included 2.18 inches in Muscle Shoals, AL and 2.47 inches in Clarksville, TN. Most of the day's tornado reports came from the piedmont and coastal sections of the Carolinas. Florence, SC, which escaped a direct tornado hit by 3 miles, reported a thunderstorm wind gust to 75 mph. Cold air returned to the Midwest and East in the front's wake, setting or tying more than a dozen daily records on November 9-10. Lows on Thursday included 14 degrees F in Madison, WI and 15 degrees F in Cincinnati, OH. A day later, Providence, RI and Atlantic City, NJ both registered 22 degrees F. Daily-record warmth overspread the West at midweek, while torrential rainfall arrived west of the Cascades. On November 8, highs topped 80 degrees F as far north as Stockton, CA (81 degrees F) and reached 70 degrees F in Yakima, WA. Serious flooding developed in the river basins of mainland northwestern Washington. Levels along the Skagit River approached record levels set in November 1990. Weekly precipitation, including additional heavy rainfall on November 10-11, reached 7.23 inches in Quillayute, WA and topped 5 inches in Oregon at Portland and Astoria. Portland received a November-record, 24-hour total of 2.80 inches on November 10-11, while Astoria clocked consecutive daily-record southerly wind gusts on November 10 (60 mph) and 11 (53 mph). In the Washington Cascades, Stampede Pass ended the week with a 14-inch snow cover, up from 3 inches at midweek. In contrast, dry weather prevailed from California to the Great Basin, marking a further delay in the already-late arrival of the 1995-96 wet season. In the wake of their first completely dry October since 1887, the longest dry spell on record in Reno, NV stretched to 116 days by week's end. Farther east, however, the first major snowfall of the season blanketed Utah's Wasatch Range on November 9-10, leaving Alta with a 21-inch cover. On Friday, temperatures in the Plains ranged from 96 degrees in Cotulla, TX to a daily-record low of -8 degrees F in Glasgow, MT, as a cold front accelerated southward. A day earlier, highs reached daily-record levels in the central Plains at North Platte, NE (75 degrees F) and Garden City, KS (80 degrees F). But 36 hours later, on Saturday morning, Hill City, KS logged a daily-record low of 4 degrees F. A 1- to 2-inch snow cover insulated winter wheat in northern Kansas and southern/western Nebraska. But wheat from southern Kansas to Texas' Northern Panhandle was exposed to lows of 10 to 20 degrees F and received negligible precipitation. A wave of low pressure developed on the cold front toward week's end, further enhancing the system's temperature contrast and precipitation shield. In McAlester, OK, an inch of snow covered the ground on Saturday morning, less than 18 hours after a high of 84 degrees F. After a daily-record high (83 degrees F) on Friday in Tulsa, OK, the temperature plummeted 50 degrees in less than 5 hours. Farther north, snow depths reached 4 inches in Lincoln, NE, Kirksville, MO, and Madison, WI. Heavy rain fell in the Great Lakes and Eastern States on Saturday, causing widespread, minor flooding, and pushing many weekly totals above 2 inches. Daily-record rainfalls were measured in Greenville-Spartanburg (1.60 inches) and Williamsport, PA (1.77 inches). A changeover to accumulating snow, preceded and accompanied by high winds, occurred from the Great Lakes into the Northeast. In Williamsport, winds gusted to 54 mph shortly before an inch of snow whitened the ground. Preceding the arrival of colder air on Saturday night, Burlington, VT (66 degrees F) notched a daily-record high. Meanwhile, temperatures dipped to daily-record levels on Saturday evening in the Midwest, including 13 degrees F in Illinois at both Springfield and Peoria. In contrast, daily-record warmth returned to the West, where highs rose to 76 degrees F in Sacramento, CA and 75 degrees F in Reno. HDR2012000170101114951200CROP PROGRESS Released November 13, 1995, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture. For information on "Crop Progress" call Greg Preston at (202) 720-7621, office hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET. For assistance with general agricultural statistics, information about NASS, its products or services, contact the NASS Information Hotline at 1-800-727-9540 or E-mail: NASS@AG.GOV. Corn: Percent Harvested, Soybeans: Percent Harvested, Selected States Selected States -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- : Week Ending : : Week Ending : :-----------------------: 1990- :-----------------------: 1990- State:Nov 12,:Nov 5, :Nov 12,: 1994 State:Nov 12,:Nov 5, :Nov 12,: 1994 : 1995 : 1995 : 1994 : Avg. : 1995 : 1995 : 1994 : Avg. -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- : Percent : Percent : : CO : 90 74 94 80 AL : 60 58 55 68 GA : 100 99 99 100 AR : 91 83 83 76 IL : 98 94 90 88 GA : 27 21 41 56 IN : 97 93 86 79 IL : 99 99 98 98 IA : 97 89 94 85 IN : 100 99 100 98 KS : 98 95 99 95 IA : 99 99 100 100 KY : 98 97 94 93 KS : 100 95 89 95 MI : 90 76 58 55 KY : 90 80 83 77 MN : 95 85 93 82 LA : 99 92 91 90 MO : 87 78 88 88 MI : 99 97 97 92 NE : 90 80 96 84 MN : 97 94 99 99 NC : 99 98 100 97 MS : 96 94 83 78 OH : 91 81 79 71 MO : 95 90 85 89 PA : 89 80 64 59 NE : 100 99 100 100 SD : 85 69 89 78 NC : 20 16 31 34 TX : 99 98 100 100 OH : 99 97 100 98 WI : 88 80 81 65 SC : 13 11 31 31 : SD : 93 86 100 100 17 Sts: 94 87 90 82 TN : 72 65 68 68 -------------------------------------- : These 17 States produced 93% of the 19 Sts: 94 91 92 92 1994 corn crop. -------------------------------------- These 19 States produced 94% of the 1994 soybean crop. We 1 (11-95) Winter Wheat: Percent Emerged, Cotton: Percent Harvested, Selected States Selected States -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- : Week Ending : : Week Ending : :-----------------------: 1990- :-----------------------: 1990- State:Nov 12,:Nov 5, :Nov 12,: 1994 State:Nov 12,:Nov 5, :Nov 12,: 1994 : 1995 : 1995 : 1994 : Avg. : 1995 : 1995 : 1994 : Avg. -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- : Percent : Percent : : AR : 63 44 65 59 AL : 90 86 63 82 CA : 7 5 9 9 AZ : 70 60 91 86 CO : 98 96 100 99 AR : 96 91 89 89 GA : 19 9 13 15 CA : 70 50 89 90 ID : 89 71 75 84 GA : 75 74 53 73 IL : 95 82 92 85 LA : 100 99 92 96 IN : 95 83 97 87 MS : 100 99 90 91 KS : 93 90 96 91 MO : 93 89 95 90 MI : 94 89 94 89 NM : 56 45 66 53 MO : 76 65 78 73 NC : 64 55 73 71 MT : 87 85 80 87 OK : 26 15 76 50 NE : 100 100 100 100 SC : 61 53 66 76 NC : 34 21 43 41 TN : 84 80 84 87 OH : 94 92 92 84 TX : 54 49 64 53 OK : 78 70 92 83 : OR : 76 64 70 81 14 Sts: 71 65 75 72 SD : 96 95 100 100 -------------------------------------- TX : 72 69 78 77 These 14 States produced 99% of the WA : 89 88 72 89 1994 cotton crop. : 19 Sts: 84 79 87 84 -------------------------------------- Sorghum: Percent Harvested, These 19 States produced 92% of the Selected States 1994 winter wheat crop. -------------------------------------- : Week Ending : :-----------------------: 1990- State:Nov 12,:Nov 5, :Nov 12,: 1994 : 1995 : 1995 : 1994 : Avg. -------------------------------------- : Percent : AR : 100 100 100 99 CO : 91 84 84 74 IL : 94 86 93 89 KS : 98 93 97 87 LA : 100 100 100 100 MS : 100 100 100 100 MO : 86 82 87 89 NE : 100 99 99 91 NM : 57 50 75 58 OK : 76 47 55 73 SD : 82 81 95 93 TX : 96 94 95 93 : 12 Sts: 95 91 94 89 -------------------------------------- These 12 States produced 99% of the 1994 sorghum crop. HDR2012000170101114951200CROP CONDITION Winter Wheat: Crop Condition by Percent, Selected States -------------------------------------- State : VP : P : F : G : EX -------------------------------------- : Percent : AR : 1 4 33 57 5 CA : 0 0 25 75 0 CO : 3 5 22 62 8 GA : 0 0 24 76 0 ID : 0 1 17 74 8 IL : 1 9 40 46 4 IN : 1 7 25 58 9 KS : 1 16 40 38 5 MI : 1 6 26 52 15 MO : 0 7 53 38 2 MT : 0 1 12 68 19 NE : 0 2 30 66 2 NC : 0 7 26 59 8 OH : 0 1 24 61 14 OK : 1 6 45 44 4 OR : 0 0 11 84 5 SD : 0 2 21 63 14 TX : 2 17 56 23 2 WA : 0 5 11 83 1 : 19 Sts : 1 9 36 48 6 : Prev Wk : 1 8 35 51 5 Prev Yr : 1 4 25 62 8 --------------------------------------