2 tornado, 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 Aug 16, 2:13 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 313 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2004 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... THE FORECAST CONCERN THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL MAINLY BE CENTERED AROUND SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES...PARTICULARLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS REMAIN IN A NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME WITH PRONOUNCED RIDGE AXIS STRETCHING FROM A MID-UPPER TROP HIGH NEAR GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO NORTH-NORTHWEST INTO ALASKA. A S/WV TROUGH OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA THIS MORNING HAD MOVED INTO SOUTHERN NEVADA BY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WAVE APPEARS FAIRLY FORMIDABLE ON WATER VAPOR AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES BY WEDNESDAY. THE UPPER HIGH OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AT THIS TIME IS GOING TO LIMIT ITS EASTWARD PUSH TOWARD THE HIGH PLAINS. S/WV TROUGH IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE MIDWEST THIS AFTERNOON HAD PUSHED A WEAK SURFACE COLD FRONT INTO SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. SUBTLE CONVERGENCE ON THE FRONT OVER NORTHEASTERN COLORADO HAD GENERATED A TOWERING CU FIELD AROUND THE LIMON AREA. OTHER SMALL STORMS ARE TRYING TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN AN ENHANCED CONVERGENCE AREA NEAR THE TOPOGRAPHICALLY INDUCED SPRINGFIELD LOW. WILL KEEP SOME VERY SMALL POPS IN THE WEST AND IN THE NORTH THROUGH THE MID EVENING HOURS SHOULD STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE STATE LINE, HOWEVER, THESE STORMS SHOULD PROVE TO BE OF LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE IN RAINFALL. THE WEAK COLD FRONT WILL OOZE INTO NORTHERN KANSAS OVERNIGHT AND STALL OUT OVER THE NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA BY AFTERNOON TOMORROW. THIS MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR AN ISOLATED LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM OR TWO SHOULD ENOUGH CONVERGENCE EXIST ON THE FRONT...THUS WILL KEEP SOME 10-20 POPS GOING IN THIS AREA. HIGHS TOMORROW WILL BE BASED ON 850MB TEMP OUTPUT FROM THE ECMWF MODEL AS IT HAS VERIFIED VERY WELL SO FAR THIS SUMMER...THE ETA MODEL HAS BEEN MORE OF A NEGATIVE GUIDANCE THIS SUMMER WITH RESPECT TO HIGH TEMPERATURE FORECASTING AS IT OVER MIXES BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE. GIVEN THE FAIRLY WET SUMMER, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION PROCESSES ARE HIGHER THAN USUAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR, HENCE THE LIKELY POOR DIURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER FORECASTING OF THE ETA. THE ETA/GFS POINT AT MCS DEVELOPMENT TOMORROW NIGHT OVER NEBRASKA AS A JET STREAK MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW. THIS SHOULD HELP DRIVE ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT SOUTH DOWN THE HIGH PLAINS OVERNIGHT TUESDAY NIGHT INTO THE DAY WEDNESDAY. WITH THE STRONG WAVE APPROACHING THE CENTRAL ROCKIES ON WEDNESDAY, A SURFACE LOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON THE STALLED OUT COLD FRONT/LEE TROUGH. WITH ADEQUATE MOISTURE AVAILABLE AND STRONG LIFT MOVING INTO THE HIGH PLAINS BY LATE WEDNESDAY, THERE SHOULD BE INITIATION OF A CLUSTER OF STORMS ON THE FRONT IN EASTERN COLORADO/NORTHWEST KANSAS. WILL GO WITH 40 POPS IN THE NORTHWEST THEN BRING HIGHER POPS INTO THE REST OF THE CWA BY 00Z ALONG THE FRONT. THE BULK OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD BE AFTER 00Z/THU. DAYS 3-7... STILL LOOKS LIKE A DECENT CHANCE FOR RAIN WED NIGHT INTO THUR AS A COMBINATION OF FEATURES THAT I MENTIONED YESTERDAY, THE S/W OVER NEVADA AND A SOUTHWARD MOVING COLD FRONT COMBINE FORCES OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. LOOKS LIKE AN MCS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE HIGH TERRAIN AND THEN MOVE ACROSS WESTERN KS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SURFACE FRONT WILL BE SHOVED SOUTH POSSIBLY INTO OKLAHOMA BEFORE RETREATING ON THURSDAY. WILL KEEP POPS GOING THRU THURSDAY WITH FRONT IN THE AREA. ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY ROTATES AROUND THE POLAR VORTEX LATER ON IN THE WEEK WHICH WILL SEND YET ANOTHER FRONT SOUTH THROUGH OUR AREA SOMETIME FRIDAY OR FRIDAY NIGHT. WILL UP POPS TO CHC FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AS WE COULD SEE A SIMILAR SCENARIO TO WHAT WILL BE SEEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT SET UP AGAIN. THE BRUNT OF THESE COLD AIR SURGES WILL BE TO OUR NORTHEAST, HOWEVER THERE IS A POSSIBILITY TEMPS MAY NOT GET OUT OF THE 70S ON THURSDAY OR SATURDAY IF CLOUDS AND RAIN HOLD ON. WAS REAL RELUCTANT TO CHANGE MUCH FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH SOME DRAMATIC CHANGES IN THE MODEL SOLUTIONS, NOTABLY THE 12Z GFS FROM THE 6Z GFS. THE ENSEMBLES AND THE 6Z GFS POINT TO MORE OF A ZONAL FLOW PATTERN ACROSS THE CONUS, WHILE THE ECMWF AND 12Z GFS BEGIN TO DIG A DEEP TROUGH IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES, CHANGES WILL BE NEEDED TO THE LATER PERIODS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 63 89 64 89 / 10 00 00 10 GCK 61 89 61 89 / 10 10 10 30 EHA 59 86 61 87 / 10 00 00 40 LBL 61 87 63 89 / 10 00 00 20 HYS 64 90 64 89 / 10 20 20 20 P28 65 87 66 88 / 10 00 00 00 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. && UMSCHEID/LACY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 500 AM CDT MON AUG 16 2004 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-171000- BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-ELLIS-FINNEY-FORD-GRANT-GRAY-HAMILTON- HASKELL-HODGEMAN-KEARNY-KIOWA-LANE-MEADE-MORTON-NESS-PAWNEE-PRATT- RUSH-SCOTT-SEWARD-STAFFORD-STANTON-STEVENS-TREGO- 500 AM CDT (400 AM MDT) MON AUG 16 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GERARD
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:36 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
This landspout did not move far but it did cause slight damage to two granaries at a farm 3 miles east of Hugoton.
This short lived landspout did not hit anything.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 2004Warnings in Kansas, August 2004
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: 5419316, 5419317.