Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 8 to 9, 2004

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
321 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004

.SHORT TERM...LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS REVEALS A STALLED OUT WARM
FRONT SITTING ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS WHILE A WEAK COLD FRONT IS
MOVING INTO NORTHWEST NEBRASKA.  DEEP BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE AND
RESULTANT HIGH INSTABILITY IS PRESENT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WARM
FRONT...BUT CAPPING IS VERY STRONG AT THIS TIME.  WATER VAPOR
IMAGERY REVEALS TWO DISTINCT WAVES TO IMPACT AREA THIS EVENING.
FIRST WAVE IS CURRENTLY ACROSS THE PLAINS AND HAS PRODUCED A THICK
FIELD OF SHALLOW CU FROM NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO EASTERN
NEBRASKA.  HOWEVER...IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME AS THOUGH CAP WILL
LIKELY REMAIN TOO STRONG FOR DEEP CONVECTION TO INITIATE WITH THIS
WAVE.  THIS SHIFTS ATTENTION TOWARD THE SECOND WAVE CURRENTLY MOVING
ACROSS WYOMING.  ANTICIPATE CONVECTION TO FIRE OVER THE HIGH PLAINS
BY EVENING AS WAVE ENCOUNTERS BETTER INSTABILITY.  AS LLJ FORMS
OVER AREA BY 06-09Z TIME FRAME...THIS CONVECTION WOULD MOVE INTO
CWA.  NOCTURNAL SEVERE THREAT WILL BE MORE OR LESS CONFINED TO WIND
AND HAIL.

UPPER RIDGE THEN BEGINS TO AMPLIFY ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS BY
FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY.  THIS WILL ALLOW WEAK WARM FRONT TO
ESSENTIALLY BECOME DIFFUSE WHILE LEE TROUGH STRENGTHENS OVER THE
HIGH PLAINS.  THIS WILL MEAN A COUPLE OF THINGS FOR FORECAST
AREA...MUCH WARMER TEMPERATURES BEHIND GOOD WAA OVER THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS...AND MUCH LOWER CHANCE OF PRECIP. ANY PRECIP CHANCE
LIKELY WILL BE CONFINED TO AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 183 AS AN
OCCASIONAL CELL DRIFTS OFF OF THE HIGH PLAINS INTO WESTERN CWA.
WILL AIM TEMPERATURES INTO THE UPPER 80S TO MID 90S BOTH DAYS.

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.  QUESTION REMAINS HOW STRONG
THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE PLAINS AND THEN WHETHER IT HOLDS ITS
POSITION IN THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK OR GETS PUSHED SOUTH AS
CANADIAN WAVES MOVE ACROSS. TEMPERATURES HAVE STRUGGLED TO REACH THE
UPPER 80S AND 90S PAST COUPLE OF DAYS WITH BOUNDARIES HANGING OVER
OR JUST SOUTH OF CWA.  THINKING IS THAT AS UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO
BUILD THE WESTERLIES WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH FINALLY ALLOWING WARMUP
AND DRYING THINGS OUT INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE WORK WEEK. MID 90S
SEEM REASONABLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. OPERATIONAL GFS WANTS TO PUSH
RIDGE BACK DOWN WED AND THURS PUTTING US BACK INTO BETTER NORTHWEST
FLOW WHICH WOULD COOL THINGS OFF SLIGHTLY AND BRING BACK CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION. ECMWF LOOKS TO KEEP HIGHER HEIGHTS IN REGION. FOR NOW
WILL DROP HIGH TEMPERATURES JUST A LITTLE FOR DAYS 6 AND 7 BUT PLAN
TO KEEP DRY FORECAST GOING UNTIL BETTER CONSISTENCY ON SITUATION CAN
BE OBTAINED.
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.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.NE...NONE.
.KS...NONE.
&&

AWJ/RE

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
437 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-091200-
ADAMS-BUFFALO-CLAY-DAWSON-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-FURNAS-GOSPER-GREELEY-
HALL-HAMILTON-HARLAN-HOWARD-JEWELL-KEARNEY-MERRICK-MITCHELL-NANCE-
NUCKOLLS-OSBORNE-PHELPS-PHILLIPS-POLK-ROOKS-SHERMAN-SMITH-THAYER-
VALLEY-WEBSTER-YORK-
437 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST PRIMARILY LATE THIS
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS OVER MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM OVER THE HIGH PLAINS BY EARLY THIS
EVENING AND THEN WILL MOVE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE MID
EVENING TO OVERNIGHT HOURS.  STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH
LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS.  HEAVY RAINFALL
FROM THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE SOME ISOLATED AREAS OF FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SATURDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK
AREA.

AWJ

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1109 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1027 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 W COZAD               40.86N 100.06W
07/08/2004  45 MPH           DAWSON             NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

1029 PM     HAIL             4 W COZAD               40.86N 99.99W
07/08/2004  0.75 INCH        DAWSON             NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

1040 PM     TSTM WND GST     COZAD                   40.86N 99.99W
07/08/2004  60 MPH           DAWSON             NE   PUBLIC

            EAST WINDS AT 60-70 MPH WITH HAIL OF UNKNOWN SIZE

1041 PM     TSTM WND GST     JOHNSON LAKE            40.68N 99.85W
07/08/2004  70 MPH           GOSPER             NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POWER OUT AT JOHNSON LAKE

1058 PM     TORNADO          3 W SUMNER              40.95N 99.56W
07/08/2004                   DAWSON             NE   EMERGENCY MNGR

1105 PM     TSTM WND GST     ELWOOD                  40.59N 99.86W
07/08/2004  70 MPH           GOSPER             NE   PUBLIC

            SOME LARGE BRANCHES DOWN...WITH HEAVY RAINFALL

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HJS

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1143 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1115 PM     TSTM WND GST     BERTRAND                40.53N 99.63W
07/08/2004  60 MPH           PHELPS             NE   PUBLIC

1120 PM     TSTM WND GST     8 W KEARNEY             40.70N 99.24W
07/08/2004  62 MPH           BUFFALO            NE   AMATEUR RADIO

            AT HIGHWAY 30 AND EVERGREEN ROAD

1126 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ELWOOD                  40.59N 99.86W
07/08/2004                   GOSPER             NE   PUBLIC

            TREE LIMBS DOWN AT HWY 6 AND HWY 34

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HJS