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 Jul 11, 12:41 PM MST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 141 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2005 .DISCUSSION... 15Z WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATED STRONG NORTHERN STREAM WAVE LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE DAKOTAS. RUC H400 PV ANALYSIS CAUGHT ONGOING FLOW PATTERN VERY WELL AND INDICATED PV LOBE STRETCHING FROM THE DAKOTAS SHORT WAVE STRETCHING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SOUTHEAST COLORADO...WHICH IS VERY CLOSE TO AREA OF ASCENT NOTICED ON SAT IMAGERY. BOTH ETA/GFS INITIALIZED FAIRLY WELL ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS...WITH ONE NOTICEABLE EXCEPTION. ETA DID NOT INITIALIZE WELL WITH RESPECT TO SHORT WAVE OVER THE DAKOTAS...AVERAGING AROUND 30 M TO HIGH WITH HEIGHTS IN THIS AREA. FOR TONIGHT...ANOTHER COMPLICATED WEAKLY FORCED THUNDERSTORM SITUATION IN STORE FOR THE CWA THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. NO MODEL SEEMS TO HAVE A REAL GREAT HANDLE ON THE SFC PATTERN...BUT LEANED MORE TOWARDS RUC/ETA SFC PRESSURE PATTERN SOLUTION. SFC FLOW SHOULD SLOWLY BEGIN TO BACK TO THE SOUTHEAST DURING THE AFTERNOON AS APPROACHING SHORT WAVE...OVER SOUTHERN IDAHO AT 12Z...BEGINS TO MOVE OVER NORTHERN COLORADO. CURRENT THOUGHTS ARE THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL INITIATE SOMEWHERE ALONG AND NORTH OF A KLIC TO KIML LINE AROUND 21Z. AM STARTING TO BE CONCERNED THAT MOISTURE VERY LACKING ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND HAS POOLED MORE ACROSS EASTERN CWA...WHICH MAY FORCE STORM INITIATION MORE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. ENHANCED CONVERGENCE ALSO STRETCHES BACK TO THE KMCK AREA AROUND 00Z WHICH IS IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING COLD FRONT FROM NEBRASKA. OVERNIGHT SHORT WAVE SLIDES AROUND THE RIDGE AND BEST FORCING SLIDES ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE AREA. WILL KEEP HIGHEST POPS IN THIS AREA AND KEEP THEM THROUGH THE NIGHT AS WEAKER WAVE LAST NIGHT WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN CONVECTION. SHEAR/INSTABILITY PROFILES SUPPORT SEVERE AND ORIENTATION OF THE INSTABILITY AXIS IS RIGHT ALONG WITH THE MEAN WIND...SO EXPECT STORMS TO HAVE NO PROBLEM MOVING AWAY FROM THE INITIATION AREA. AS THE LAST FEW DAYS...WILL HAVE TO MONITOR SHORT TERM TRENDS BEFORE MAKING FINAL DECISION. FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS...UPSTREAM LOWS FROM LAST NIGHT LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT CWA LOWS WERE AND THINK BLEND OF PERSISTENCE SLIGHTLY TWEAKED WITH WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT WILL BE THE BEST WAY TO GO. THIS GENERALLY MATCHES UP NEAR MAV NUMBERS...ALTHOUGH SLIGHTLY BELOW IN SOME AREAS. TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT...ANOTHER TRICKY PRECIPITATION FORECAST AS BOTH ETA/GFS LINGER SHORT WAVE ENERGY ACROSS THE CWA MUCH OF THE DAY AS EVIDENCED BY TROPOPAUSE FIELDS AND 400 MB PV. COULD SEE SOME LINGERING THUNDER DURING THE MORNING HOURS AND WILL KEEP SOME LOW POPS IN THE MORNING TO COVER THIS POSSIBILITY. POST FRONTAL FLOW BECOMES EASTERLY DURING THE AFTERNOON...AND WITH 60 DEWPOINTS NOTED UPSTREAM BEHIND THE FRONT IMAGINE IT WILL BE RATHER MOIST AS WELL. BIG QUESTION WILL BE IF ENOUGH INSTABILITY CAN DEVELOP BEFORE RIDGE ALOFT WARMS MID LEVELS TO MUCH AND CAPS OFF THE ATMOSPHERE. MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATE A SHARP SUBSIDENCE INVERSION SETTING UP AS EARLY AS 18Z TUESDAY. HOWEVER...WITH LINGERING SHORT WAVE...AND ANOTHER WEAK UPPER LEVEL WAVE ROUNDING THE RIDGE IN THE EARLY EVENING THINK THERE IS ENOUGH POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP A LITTLE BIT OF THUNDER ACROSS WESTERN CWA IN THE 21Z-03Z TIME FRAME. UNLIKE THIS MORNING AND POTENTIALLY TONIGHT...RIDGING ALOFT SHOULD SUPPRESS ANY CONVECTION ONCE DAYTIME HEATING IS LOST. WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY...RATHER QUITE WEATHER ON TAP FOR THIS PERIOD AS SHARP UPPER RIDGE BECOMES DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE. HOT AND DRY WILL BE THE WAY TO GO WITH THE ONLY MAJOR FORECAST CONCERN BEING TEMPS. IN THE EXTENDED...AS THE PAST FEW DAYS...NOT A LOT OF CHANGES NEEDED TO THE GOING FORECAST AS MODELS REMAIN REASONABLY CONSISTENT WITH STRONG UPPER RIDGE FIRMLY IN PLACE OVER THE CWA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE HEAT WILL DEFINITELY RETURN TO THE CWA WITH TEMPS ALOFT SUPPORTING HIGHS IN THE UPPER 90S TO LOW 100S ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. AS STRONG NORTHERN STREAM WAVE APPROACHES THE ROCKIES...LEE TROUGH SHOULD BEGIN TO DEVELOP ALLOWING FOR SOUTH/SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WHICH WILL HELP TEMPS MIX TO THERE FULL POTENTIAL. HOT AND DRY WILL BE THE PRIMARY WEATHER UNTIL MONDAY...WHEN RIDGE FLATTENS IN RESPONSE TO SHORT WAVE AND WEAK COLD FRONT SLIDES OVER THE AREA. DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THE RIDGE PREFER SLOWER 00Z GFS/ECMWF DEPICTION OVER THE VERY PROGRESSIVE 06Z GFS. HAVE THUS INCLUDED SOME 20 POPS FOR MONDAY FOR EXPECTED FRONTAL PASSAGE. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .KS...NONE. .NE...NONE. .CO...NONE. && JRM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1050 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2005 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-121200- CHEYENNE KS-CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-DECATUR KS-DUNDY NE-GOVE KS-GRAHAM KS- GREELEY KS-HITCHCOCK NE-KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-LOGAN KS-NORTON KS- RAWLINS KS-RED WILLOW NE-SHERIDAN KS-SHERMAN KS-THOMAS KS-WALLACE KS- WICHITA KS-YUMA COUNTY CO- 1050 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA. LATER TONIGHT...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA. AS IT LOOKS NOW...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEN INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. THERE IS ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR SO THAT ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD BECOME SEVERE. AT THIS TIME...THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO LEOTI KANSAS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ON TUESDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE DAY AND EARLY EVENING. AT THE SAME TIME...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AS THIS FRONT MOVES THROUGH. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. AT THIS TIME...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. AFTER TUESDAY NIGHT...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL PREVENT THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEVELOPING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO LEOTI KANSAS. FS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 306 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2005 COZ090>092-KSZ001-NEZ079-120400- CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-DUNDY-KIT CARSON-YUMA- 306 PM MDT (406 PM CDT) MON JUL 11 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 635 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT)... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 635 UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT) FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN EASTERN COLORADO...CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND DUNDY COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. MEHLE
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Three-inch diameter tree branches knocked down. Five fertilizer tanks that were staked to the ground were blown over. Pea-size hail destroyed corn crop. Time of event is approximate.
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