Thunderstorm Wind, Barber
- When
- August 16, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Barber County, 5 mi WNW of Kiowa
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- COOP STATION
- Coordinates
- 37.050, -98.600
The high wind was also accompanied with a wall of dirt.
Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 16, 2006
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Aug 16, 1:43 PM CST, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 1:43 PM CST, 5 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 243 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES IN THE WEST AND NORTH TONIGHT THEN HOW WIDESPREAD THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WILL BE ALONG AND AHEAD OF LEE TROUGH THEN WITH A SHORTWAVE TROUGH THAT EJECTS INTO NORTHERN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. WILL GRADIENT POPS FROM 20 SOUTHEAST TO 40 NORTH AND WEST. THEN AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE EVIDENT IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AND INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY. THIS MAY INCREASE CLOUDS AND CHANCE FOR THUNDER AREA WIDE. ALSO HIGHS WILL BE COOLER IN THE WEST WITH THE BEST CLOUD. WILL GO WITH MID 90S EAST TO UPPER 80S WEST. CHANCES FOR THUNDER LINGER INTO THURSDAY NIGHT WITH VORT MAX, THEN WITH TEMPS REACHING THE MID 90S ON FRIDAY WITH A WEAK CAP WILL KEEP A 30 POP FOR MAINLY LATE AFTERNOON THUNDER. OVERNIGHT LOWS SHOULD BE MILD WITH SOUTH WINDS AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH. DAYS 3-7... POP FCST ALONG THE FRONT FRI NIGHT INTO SATURDAY APPEARS TO BE MAIN CHALLENGE. OVERALL...NOT A LOT TO CHANGE IN THE FCST. ONCE THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH SATURDAY...SHOULD SEE LINGERING TROPICAL MOISTURE AROUND AS THE FRONTAL PUSH WILL BE QUITE WEAK PER ALL THE MODEL PROGS...WHICH MAKES SENSE GIVEN THE DOMINANT SUBTROPICAL RIDGE OVER THE SOUTH. OVERTIME...THIS SUBTROPICAL RIDGE WILL RETROGRADE TO THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES...WHILE HEIGHTS LOWER OVER THE NORTHEASTERN QUARTER OF THE CONUS. THIS WILL PUT WESTERN KANSAS INTO A WEAK WEST-NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME. IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE ANY APPRECIABLE PCPN CHANCES WILL EXIST...ALTHOUGH WITH TROPICAL MOISTURE REMAINING IN PROXIMITY...DAILY CHANCES FOR ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL EXIST. WILL PAINT THE GRIDS WITH 10 TO 14 POPS THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED PERIOD BEYOND SATURDAY...SINCE NOT ONE DAY STANDS OUT ABOVE ANY OTHER THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK FOR PCPN CHANCES. GIVEN THE FLOW PATTERN AND SUBSEQUENT HIGHER MSLPS...HIGHS AROUND CLIMO ARE EXPECTED, WHICH IS AROUND 90 FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 69 92 69 95 / 20 40 40 30 GCK 68 90 68 93 / 30 40 40 30 EHA 65 86 66 91 / 30 30 40 30 LBL 68 89 68 93 / 20 40 40 30 HYS 70 94 70 97 / 30 40 40 30 P28 72 97 72 99 / 20 30 30 30 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN06/25
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 1:52 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 252 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006 KSZ031-046-064>066-078>081-087>090-171000- BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-ELLIS-FORD-HODGEMAN-KIOWA-MEADE-PAWNEE- PRATT-RUSH-STAFFORD- 252 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SOME SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY BETWEEN 6 PM AND 10 PM TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, BUT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED. KSZ030-043>045-061>063-074>077-084>086-171000- FINNEY-GRANT-GRAY-HAMILTON-HASKELL-KEARNY-LANE-MORTON-NESS-SCOTT- SEWARD-STANTON-STEVENS-TREGO- 252 PM CDT (152 PM MDT) WED AUG 16 2006 .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS, BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, BUT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 06
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:48 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, August 16, 2006
- Flash Flooding in Nebraska, August 16, 2006
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Minnesota, August 16 to 17, 2006
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 16, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 16, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, August 16, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 16, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 16, 2006
- Hail in South Dakota, August 16, 2006
- Hail in Montana, August 16, 2006
- Hail in Montana, August 16 to 17, 2006
- Hail in Montana, August 16, 2006
More
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Sources
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: 5528628.