6 thunderstorm 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 Jul 14, 12:48 PM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 148 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 DAYS 1-2... THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS WHEN AND WHERE ANY PRECIPITATION MIGHT FALL. NO QUESTION THE HOT REGIME WILL CONTINUE, BUT WHERE THERE WILL BE ENOUGH UPPER ENERGY TO SUPPORT ANY SURFACE BASED CONVECTION WILL BE THE QUESTION TO DISCERN. THE LATEST SURFACE MAP ANALYSIS FROM 18Z SHOWED A STRONG WARM (HOT) FRONT FROM LOW PRESSURE CENTER BETWEEN KPIR AND KHON, STRETCHING SOUTHEAST TO NEAR KMEM, BEFORE ARCHING EAST THEN NORTHEAST AS STATIONARY FRONT TO NEAR KJFK. A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS FORMING SOUTHWEST FROM THE LOW PRESSURE THROUGH NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO NEW MEXICO NEAR KABQ. A FEW RECORD HIGH TEMPS COULD STILL BE SET THIS AFTERNOON, AS THE LOW LEVEL WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. AS THIS COLD FRONT RUNS INTO A STRONG WARM SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS, THERE IS AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SOME SURFACE BASED THUNDERHEADS LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THESE SHOULD BE HIGH BASED AND LOW PRECIPITATION PRODUCERS, AND NEAR OR JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONTAL POSITION. WILL GO WITH 20 POPS FOR ALL BUT THE SOUTHEAST MOST ZONES UNTIL 04Z. BEST MODEL INITIALIZATION FROM 12Z WAS THE ETA/MESOETA, FOLLOWED CLOSE BY THE NGM. WILL FOLLOW THE ETA FOR POPS ON TUESDAY, WITH 20 POPS IN WEST LATE IN THE DAY AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN BELOW AFTERNOON DEW POINT LEVELS AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER DRIES OUT LATE IN THE DAY. HIGHS WILL STILL BE HOT, BUT THINK TODAY WILL END UP BEING THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE NEXT THREE DAYS. DAYS 3-7... LARGE, SPRAWLING UPPER RIDGE WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WITH 500MB GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS BREACHING 600 DAM VERY NEAR THE FCST AREA A COUPLE OF DAYS THIS WEEK AS HIGH WOBBLES EAST A BIT. A PERSISTENCE FORECAST OF TEMPS NEAR 100F LOOK QUITE GOOD AND WITH VERY STABLE MID-UPPER LEVELS IN VICINITY OF UPPER HIGH, WILL CONTINUE WITH NO POPS OVER THE AREA. LATEST GFS SHOWS SIGNAL OF FLATTENING IN RIDGING BY DAY 7, HOWEVER A SIGNAL LIKE THIS IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FILTER OUT FROM ALL THE NOISE FROM CONVECTION, S/WV PERTURBATIONS AROUND THE UPPER HIGH, ETC. THAT MODELS GENERATE IN THAT TIME FRAME. UNTIL IT BECOMES MORE CLEAR THAT UPPER RIDGING WILL BREAK DOWN SOME NEXT WEEK, WILL GO NEAR/NEAR FOR TEMP/PCPN IN THE 8-10 DAY. .PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 72 98 69 98 / 20 00 00 00 GCK 67 97 67 98 / 20 00 00 00 EHA 67 95 66 98 / 20 20 20 00 LBL 69 97 68 99 / 20 00 20 00 HYS 70 96 69 97 / 20 00 00 00 P28 75 98 73 99 / 00 00 00 00 .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. 12/25
KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-151000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1026 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AFTER 4 PM ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT FROM JOHNSON CITY TO JETMORE TO LACROSSE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS TO 55 MPH WITH LITTLE RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH DURING THE EVENING HOURS TO INCLUDE AREAS FROM ELKHART TO DODGE CITY TO SAINT JOHN AND SURROUNDING LOCATIONS. STORMS SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. UMSCHEID
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 11 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:12 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Shingles of a roof were torn off by this dry microburst wind.
Power lines were blown down in the vicinity.
Six inch tree limbs were broken.
Three inch limbs were broken.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2003
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: 5334219, 5334220, 5334221, 5334278, 5334279, 5334280.