17 hail, 12 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 10, 2:24 AM CST, 10 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 324 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... MAIN CONCERN IS PRECIPITATION TODAY AND TONIGHT. NOW THAT THE STRONG DIGGING JET ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE APPROACHING SYNOPTIC SCALE SYSTEM HAS MADE LANDFALL, THE NCEP MODELS FINALLY HAVE A GRASP ON IT. THEY NOW LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE WHAT THE ECMWF HAD BEEN ADVERTISING FOR DAYS IN BRINGING THE LOW OUT ALMOST DIRECTLY OVER TOP OF DDC. THE ETA NOW LOOKS AS GOOD AS ANY MODEL FOR THE NEAR TERM AND WILL GENERALLY USE IT. IN THE DIAGNOSTICS THE SYNOPTIC SCALE SYSTEM INDICATES AN OCCLUDED FRONT FROM CENTRAL COLORADO SOUTH INTO THE PANHANDLES WITH AN OCCLUSION TRIPLE POINT JUST WEST OF AMA, COLD FRONT SOUTHWESTWARD INTO FAR WEST TX (COLD AIR NOW POURING OVER GUADALUPE PASS) AND A WARM FRONT ALMOST DUE SOUTH NEAR SJT AND THENCE SOUTH INTO THE WESTERN GOM. DEEP MOISTURE IS MOVING NORTHWARD ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF THE WARM FRONT AND ELEVATED CONVECTION IS FIRING NEAR THE POINT OF OCCLUSION AND RIDING THE LOW LEVEL JET AND MID LEVEL STEERING FLOW NORTHEAST INTO MY EASTERN COUNTIES. AS THE UPPER SYSTEM EJECTS TODAY, WE SHOULD SEE A NEW OCCLUSION FORM AS THE SURFACE WAVE DEEPENS RAPIDLY AND MOVES NORTHEAST INTO THE FORECAST AREA BY 00Z. MEANWHILE THE OLD FRONT BECOMES INVOLVED WITH THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT OF THE CYCLONE SO THAT WE SHOULD SEE BEST CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION NORTH AND WEST OF THE CWA TONIGHT. AS THE NEW OCCLUSION DEVELOPS, AND BY THIS AFTERNOON WHEN HEATING IN THE WARM SECTOR MAXIMIZES AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ARRIVES FROM TEXAS THERE COULD WELL BE A BRIEF PERIOD WHEN MY SOUTHEAST COUNTIES EXPERIENCE SOME SEVERE CONVECTION ALONG THE RAPIDLY MOVING NEW OCCLUSION. CERTAINLY SHEAR WONT BE A PROBLEM AND FROM THE MODELS CAPE UP TO AS MUCH AS 1000 J/KG IS POSSIBLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THEREAFTER THE SYNOPTIC SCALE SYSTEM SHOULD WALLOW ON OFF TO THE EAST TONIGHT AND MONDAY ENDING THE PRECIPITATION CHANCES. AS TO TEMPERATURES, ONLY SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE GOING GRIDS WERE NECESSARY. ALL IN ALL THE PREVIOUS SHIFT LEFT A PRETTY REASONABLE SET OF GRIDS. DAYS 3-7... THE ONLY CHANGE WAS TO ADJUST MAX TEMPS UPWARD ABOUT 5 DEGREES OR SO FOR WED-SAT TIME FRAME AS UPPER HEIGHTS RISE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS, ALONG WITH PERSISTENT LEE TROUGHING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION BY LATE WEEK AS GULF MOISTURE RETURNS TO THE PLAINS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 65 40 58 37 / 30 40 20 00 GCK 60 35 51 35 / 40 50 20 00 EHA 60 33 55 35 / 40 60 30 00 LBL 63 37 56 37 / 20 20 20 00 HYS 65 44 54 38 / 60 60 20 00 P28 70 49 65 43 / 30 50 00 00 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .KS...NONE. && JOHNSON/FINCH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1200 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-111000- 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- 1200 PM CDT (1100 AM MDT) SUN APR 10 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PLAINS LATE TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH CLOUDS DISSIPATE DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS, THERE COULD BE SOME DECENT INSTABILITY EAST OF A COLDWATER TO DODGE CITY TO DIGHTON LINE. THIS COULD ALLOW SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM ALONG A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY BY LATE AFTERNOON AND QUICKLY MOVE OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. WITH RAPIDLY CHANGING WINDS ALOFT, THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WOULD BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THOUGH A TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM SHOULD GET GOING BY AROUND 4 PM CDT AND MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY 10 PM CDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE SATURDAY AS A NEW DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH THE PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON, MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF A COLDWATER TO DODGE CITY TO DIGHTON LINE. RITTERLING
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 149 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 KSZ030-031-043>046-062>066-077>081-088>090-110100- BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-ELLIS-FINNEY-FORD-GRAY-HODGEMAN-KEARNY- KIOWA-LANE-NESS-PAWNEE-PRATT-RUSH-SCOTT-STAFFORD-TREGO- 149 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 ...TORNADO WATCH #141 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH #141 FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. IN KANSAS: BARBER, CLARK, COMANCHE, EDWARDS, ELLIS, FINNEY, FORD, GRAY, HODGEMAN, KEARNY, KIOWA, LANE, NESS, PAWNEE, PRATT, RUSH, SCOTT, STAFFORD, AND TREGO. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 26
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:00 UTC.
17 hail, 12 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
This was a multiple vortex tornado that did not strike anything.
Contact was made with the ground for just a minute.
This was a brief spinup.
Early on this tornado had a small area of contact with the earth, passing across Cedar Bluff Reservoir but did eventually become bigger and appeared to be much stronger north of the lake. It did not strike anything directly.
This tornado appeard to be very strong but only did F1 damage to a barn that did not take a direct hit.
This was small rope-like tornado.
This tornado grew quite large but did not high anything...it appeared to be very strong.
This was small rope-like tornado.
This tornado did not high anything.
The hail reduced visibility down to near zero!
There was nothing to hit.
Even though this tornado existed for six minutes and travelled over 3 miles, it never hit anything.
There was some roof damage to a farm. A gooseneck trailer was lifted up and it's five foot tongue was driven completely into the ground. There was also some tree damage.
The hail completely covered the ground and the highway.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 2005Warnings in Kansas, April 2005
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: 5446714, 5446715, 5446716, 5446717, 5446718, 5446719, 5446720, 5446722, 5446721, 5446723, 5446724, 5446725, 5446726, 5446815, 5446816, 5446817, 5446818, 5446819, 5446820, 5446821, 5446822, 5446823, 5446824, 5446825, 5446826, 5446827, 5446828, 5446829, 5446830.