1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 20, 2:11 AM CST, 10 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 311 AM CDT FRI APR 20 2001 AFTER A VERY WARM DAY YESTERDAY, TODAY WILL SEE LITTLE CHANGE TO TEMP FORECAST. WITH NO AIRMASS CHANGE EXPECTED, WILL GO CLOSE TO WHAT CWA EXPERIENCED YESTERDAY FOR HIGHS. MORE CI/CS WILL EXIST OVER CWA, SO HIGHS SHOULD BE A FEW DEGS COOLER THAN YESTERDAYS READINGS. DRYLINE WILL MEANDER OVER THE EXTREME EASTERN CWA THIS AFTERNOON, SO WILL FORECAST COOLER HIGHS THIS AREA. STRONG UPPER WAVE OVER CA/NV THIS MORNING ROTATING NORTHEAST. LIKE THE LAST UPPER WAVE, THIS ONE WILL TAKE A SIMILAR PATH. AS UPPER WAVE MOVES TO OUR NORTH TONIGHT, OUR SFC WINDS WILL AGAIN REMAIN VEERED SAVE THE FAR EASTERN CWA. THUS, WILL WORD WINDS ACCORDINGLY IN THE ZONES. COLD FRONT LOOKS TO ENTER CWA DURING SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT, WILL FORECAST COOLER READINGS OVER THE CWA...CLOSE TO WHAT THE FAN/MAV NUMBERS INDICATE. UNTIL LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE MAKES A GOOD SURGE WEST, WILL CONTINUE WITH DRY FORECAST. BEST LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE LOOKS TO OCCUR AFTER 0Z SUNDAY. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 087/053 081/051 074 000 GCK 086/052 079/050 072 000 EHA 088/051 083/052 077 000 LBL 088/054 081/053 076 000 HYS 083/051 078/048 071 000 P28 082/056 081/055 078 000 .DDC...NONE. MCCAMMON
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-210500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1248 PM CDT FRI APR 20 2001 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS WESTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. THIS WILL PRODUCE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND EVEN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. ALTHOUGH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT, ANY STORM WHICH DOES DEVELOP IS NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. FIRE DANGER WILL AGAIN BE EXTREME THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH AND AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES RANGING FROM 10 TO 20 PERCENT WILL COMBINE TO CREATE HAZARDOUS BURNING CONDITIONS. ANY FIRES THAT START THIS AFTERNOON, WILL EXHIBIT EXTREME AND ERRATIC BEHAVIOR. THE FOLLOWING IS A SCHEDULE OF STORM IDENTIFICATION AND SPOTTER TRAINING SESSIONS FOR SPECIFIC COUNTIES. STARTING TIMES ARE ALL AT 7 PM. MORTON...THURSDAY 4/26...IN ELKHART AT EMS BUILDING 722 S. STEVENS. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE AT: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DDC/ RB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Heat burst produced a 60 mph gust at the Hays airport.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, April 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5243981.