7 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 1, 2:03 PM CST, 12 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 203 PM CST MON APR 1 2002 DAYS 1-2: A STRONG SHORTWAVE TROUGH WAS DIGGING ESE INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TODAY. THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW OVER NEBRASKA WILL RACE EAST INTO THE LAKES TONIGHT. A THERMAL LOW WAS LOCATED OVER SW KS THIS AFTERNOON. THE ARCTIC FRONT MOVING ACROSS SD THIS AFTERNOON WILL RACE SE OVERNIGHT, REACHING GCK BY 8Z AND P28 BY 11Z. WINDS WILL EASILY EXCEED WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA FROM DDC-GCK AFTER 2 AM, AND ACROSS ALL OF SW KS TUE MORNING. LOW CLOUDS WILL LAST A FEW HOURS BEHIND THE FRONT, BUT SOME BREAKS ARE LIKELY BY NOON TUE. SKIES SHOULD CLEAR TUE EVENING, WITH WINDS DROPPING OFF OVERNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER TEENS SEEM REASONABLE NORTH AND WEST, WITH 20-25 ELSEWHERE. THIS IS SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW THE GUIDANCE. 1033MB SFC HIGH WILL BE SITUATED OVER NE KS WEDNESDAY, RIDGING BACK TO THE SW. BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS WILL STILL STAY FROM THE EAST, PREVENTING ANY WARMUP. GOING FCST NUMBERS LOOK HARD TO BEAT FOR WED. DAYS 3-7... THE DIAGNOSTICS TODAY CONTINUE TO SHOW A LACK OF CLEAR SIGNALS. GLOBAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM ANOMALIES ARE DIFFICULT AT BEST TO UNDERSTAND NOT HELPED MUCH BY AN APPARENT PROBLEM WITH THE HOVMOLLER PLOTS AT CDC. THE OLR ANOMALIES ARE ALSO UNCLEAR IN SETTLING ON EITHER A MOIST OR DRY PHASE OF THE MJO. THE GENERAL CIRCULATION PATTERN OVER THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE IS JUST AS DIFFICULT TO DISCERN AS IT DEPICTS A MIX OF WAVE NUMBERS IN BOTH THE LOWER AND HIGHER LATITUDES. HAVING SAID THE ABOVE, THE GENERAL TREND OF ALL THE MODELS IS TOWARD A PROGRESSIVE PATTERN AND THEY ARE ALL IN RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT ON AT LEAST THE LONGER WAVE LENGTHS. ALL DEVELOP A POSITIVE HEIGHT ANOMALY OVER THE BERING SEA ALLOWING THE PACIFIC UPPER FLOW TO UNDERCUT THE HIGH AND BRING A SERIES OF PROGRESSIVE UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGHS ACROSS THE PACIFIC INTO THE CONUS WITH TIME. THE MRF, MRF ENSEMBLES AND AVN ARE IN QUITE GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE ECMWF AND THE CANADIAN AND WILL GENERALLY BE USED FOR THIS FORECAST. THE MRF BRINGS MOISTURE NORTH FROM THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO INTO THE KANSAS HIGH PLAINS THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. IT DEVELOPS PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE REGION IN THAT TIME FRAME IN RESPONSE TO A SOUTHERN BRANCH SHORT WAVE ALOFT MOVING THROUGH. GIVEN THE CURRENTLY ACTIVE SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE WESTERLIES AND ITS PROPENSITY FOR STOPPING GULF MOISTURE FROM COMING THIS FAR NORTH, AM VERY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THIS SOLUTION COMING TO FRUITION. THIS IS ALSO A MUCH WETTER SOLUTION FOR THE PLAINS THAN PREVIOUS RUNS OF THIS MODEL. FOR NOW WILL NOT ADD PRECIPITATION TO THIS TIME FRAME PREFERRING TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT RUN AND THUS AVOID A FLIP FLOP OF THE FORECAST. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL LIKELY SEE A SHARP WARM UP AS THE PACIFIC SYSTEM DEEPENS IN THE LEE SLOPES AND WILL INCREASE TEMPERATURES ACCORDINGLY THEN AND LOWER THEM SUBSTANTIALLY SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS THE SYSTEM PASSES. THE NEXT WARM UP SHOULD BE DURING THE OUTLOOK PERIOD WITH LITTLE MOISTURE AGAIN AVAILABLE FOR PRECIPITATION. FINCH/JOHNSON PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 34 49 21 49 / 0 0 0 0 GCK 32 49 19 50 / 0 0 0 0 EHA 35 51 24 52 / 0 0 0 0 LBL 35 52 22 52 / 0 0 0 0 HYS 33 47 17 49 / 0 0 0 0 P28 38 54 24 52 / 0 0 0 0 .DDC...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Reported in Garden City at a weatherlab network school site.
Reported at the Garden City Airport.
Reported in Dighton at a weatherlab network school site.
Reported in Offerle at a weatherlab network school site.
Reported at the Garden City airport.
Reported by a Davis Instrument wind sensor at the Dodge City airport.
Another wind gust reported by a Davis Instrument wind sensor at the Dodge City airport.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, April 2002
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: 5292470, 5292471, 5292472, 5292473, 5292474, 5292475, 5292476.