1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 1:50 PM MST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 250 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 2003 FORECAST CHALLENGES REMAIN CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION AND HOW MUCH BELOW NORMAL DO THE TEMPERATURES GET. SECOND COLD FRONT HAS BEEN MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE SO DURING THE EVENING. MODELS SHOWING POSITIVE UPWARD MOTION FIELDS DECREASING FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT AS A WEAK UPPER TROUGH MOVES FROM THE WEST ACROSS THE REGION. TRIGGERS REMAIN IN THE AREA IN FORM OF SLOW MOVING FRONT AND CONVERGENT LOW LEVEL TROUGH RUNNING FROM SW KS TO NEAR DEN. THESE SHOULD COMBINE WITH LOTS OF MOITURE AND UPSLOPE FLOW IN THE LOW LEVELS PROVIDING NATURAL LIFT...ALL ENHANCED BY THE MID LEVEL UVV FIELDS...TO PRODUCE A VERY GOOD PRECIPITATION CHANCE FOR THE AREA. SLOW MOVEMENT OF ANY STORMS AND PW VALUES IN THE 1 TO 1.3 INCH RANGE COULD RESULT IN A FEW GULLY WASHERS IN THE SOUTH. THIS NEEDS TO BE WATCHED. AM GOING FOR CHANCES RANGING FROM 80 POP IN SW TO 30 IN THE EXTREME NE. COLD AIR ADVECTION IS A LITTLE STRONGER SAT AS A RELATIVELY STRONG...FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR...SURFACE HIGH RIDGES SOUTH ACROSS E CO AND W KS. SLIGHT CHANCE FOR LIGHT SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE DAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCE TO THE SOUTHWEST. PATCHY MORNING FOG LOOKS LIKELY WITH HEAVY LOW CLOUDINESS IN UPSLOPE FLOW. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 60S TO LOW 70S...WITH THE WARMEST IN THE NORTHEAST WHERE CLOUDINESS SHOULD BE LEAST. SAT AFTERNOON LATE A RELATIVELY STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVES INTO N CO AND THEN ON EAST DURING THE EVENING. MOST DYNAMIC SUPPORT FOR PRECIP LOOKS TO OCCUR IN THE NW ONE THIRD OF MY AREA SO WILL GO WITH HIGHEST CHANCE POPS (50) THERE AND DECREASE TO SE AND EAST WHERE MOISTURE SUPPLY IS LOWEST. SUN THERE IS A VERY SLOW DRYING PROCESS ONGOING BUT WILL KEEP CHANCE IN THE NORTH EARLY AS SHORTWAVE IS SLOW TO MOVE NE INTO NEB. A LITTLE MORE SUNSHINE ALLOWS TEMPERATURES TO RISE 3-4 DEGREES WARMER ON SUN THAN SAT. SURFACE HIGH SLOWLY MOVES EAST ACROSS NEB SUN NIGHT AND MON...ALLOWING CLOUDS TO BREAK AND TEMPERATURES TO WARM ON LABOR DAY AS WINDS SHIFT TO THE SOUTH. WEAK SHORTWAVE LATE MON MAY FIRE UP A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CO WHICH WOULD MOVE INTO NW KS UNDER INCREASING NW FLOW ALOFT. TUE THROUGH THU STILL LOOKS DRY AND WARMER WITH TEMPERATURES MOVING ABOVE NORMAL BY WED...UNDER STRONG RIDGING ALOFT. BY FRI UPPER RIDGE MOVES SOUTH AND COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. WITH INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND INSTABILITY HAVE INSERTED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND LOWERED TEMPERATURES TO NORMAL LEVELS FOR FRI. COOLER AIR TO FOLLOW SAT. .GLD...NONE. RJC
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1025 AM MDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS BORDER THIS MORNING IS MOVING SOUTH AT AROUND 20 MPH...AND WILL REACH THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE BEHIND THE FRONT. THE TRI STATE AREA HAS SEEN EXTENSIVE MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS THIS MORNING...AND THIS WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF DAYTIME HEATING AT THE SURFACE. IN ADDITION...WIND SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE VERY WEAK AND NOT ALLOW FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME WELL ORGANIZED. HOWEVER...A POOL OF COLD AIR ALOFT MAY ALLOW AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM TO BRIEFLY PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...WITH THIS THREAT PRIMARILY IN EASTERN COLORADO AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 IN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY BEHIND THE FRONT...EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CAUSE THE AIR MASS TO BECOME MORE MOIST. THIS COMBINED WITH A COUPLE OF UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEMS...WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE DRY. HOWEVER...ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED ON LABOR DAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND WILL OCCUR WITH ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL BE DRY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. BULLER/JDK
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Time estimated. One-foot diameter tree limbs down, trees blown down, portion of barn roof blown 100 yards.
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