1 high wind, 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 Jan 12, 2:44 AM CST, 8 hours 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 244 AM CST THU JAN 12 2006 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE OTHER THAN TEMPS WILL BE POPS AND WINDS WITH THE SHORTWAVE TROF MOVING THRU TODAY. UPPER ANALYSIS SHOWED LOWERING HEIGHTS ACROSS THE WEST WITH A PAIR OF STRONG JETS POUNDING INTO OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE 500MB COLD TROF WAS LOCATED FROM BRITISH COLOMBIA SOUTH TO NEVADA. MUCH STRONGER WINDS WERE NOTED ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE COLD TROF ACROSS SOUTHERN OREGON AND NEVADA WHERE 80+ KT FLOW WAS OBSERVED AT 00Z. THIS WILL HELP TO BE THE DECIDING FACTOR AS TO WHICH CLUSTER OF MODELS TO BELIEVE TODAY IN THE HANDLING OF THE SHORTWAVE TROF TO MOVE THRU THE PLAINS. WITH THE STRONGER FLOW NOTED AT BOTH 250 AND 500MB, THE SYSTEM SHOULD STILL CONTINUE TO DIG FARTHER SOUTH WITH TIME. STRANGELY ENUF, THE NAM/GFS DIG THIS SYSTEM ACROSS SW KS WITH ALMOST ALL PRECIP LOCATED TO THE NORTH AND EAST. HOWEVER...THE UKMET...CANADIAN AND ECMWF DIG THE SYSTEM FARTHER WEST...PUTTING US IN MORE FAVORED REGION FOR SHORT DURATION 700MB COLD FRONTOGENETIC PRECIP. GIVEN WHAT IVE SEEN IN THE DATA, THIS WOULD LEAD ME TO BELIEVE THE UKMET/CANADIAN/ECMWF SOLUTION FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE. GIVEN THE WARMER TEMPS DOWN LOW TODAY FEEL THAT THE PRECIP WILL BE MOSTLY RAIN AS IT SWEEPS ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE DAY. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A FEW SNOWFLAKES MIX IN TOWARD LATE AFTERNOON BUT I DONT THINK THIS WILL BE A BIG DEAL. HAVE KEPT THE SLGT CHC POPS WE HAD GOING FOR MUCH OF THE AREA TO ACCOUNT FOR THE UKMET SOLUTION. THIS MODEL ALSO SHOWS STRONG COLD ADVECTION DURING THE DAY AND WITH THIS COMES STRONG WINDS. THE GRADIENT IS TIGHTEST DURING THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON AND HAVE FOLLOWED THE UKMET SUGGESTION OF HIGHER WINDS THAN THE NAM/GFS. WINDS WILL PROBABLY FLIRT WITH ADVISORY CRITERIA FOR A SHORT TIME BEFORE THE GRADIENT BEGINS TO SLACK OFF IN THE AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL BE TRICKY AS 850MB TEMPS ARE RATHER WARM THIS MORNING FOLLOWED BY RAPID DECREASE BY MIDDAY. TEMPS MAY BE ABLE TO CLIMB QUICKLY BEFORE THE COLD FRONT ARRIVES AND USHERS IN FALLING TEMPS FOR THE AFTERNOON. THE UPPER WAVE AND ASSOCIATED CLOUDS AND PRECIP MOVE RAPIDLY EAST OVERNIGHT AND WE ENTER ANOTHER TRANQUIL SET OF DAYS AHEAD. I KEPT LOWS HIGHER THAN GUIDANCE WITH NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE 10KTS ALL NIGHT. COLDER LOW LEVEL AIR CONTINUES TO FILTER DOWN FROM THE NORTH BEHIND THE SYSTEM THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY BEFORE GRADUALLY WARMING BY LATE AFTERNOON DUE TO DOWNSLOPE. WITH UKMET 850MB TEMPS STAYING RATHER COOL WILL UNDERCUT GUIDANCE FOR HIGHS STAYING IN THE UPPER 40S TO AROUND 50. LACY DAYS 3-7... THE DIAGNOSTICS SUPPORT THE CURRENT MODEL AND ENSEMBLE AGREEMENT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE PATTERN TO A HIGH AMPLITUDE AND REASONABLY PROGRESSIVE REGIME DURING THE COMING WEEK. THE CURRENT GRIDS REFLECT THAT TRANSITION AND HAVE ONLY HAD TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT TO TEMPERATURES FOR MONDAY. THE GOING GRIDS HAD AN AFTERNOON HIGH IN THE 40S WITH SNOW OVERSPREADING THE CWA SO HAVE CHANGED THAT TO A NON-DIURNAL TRACE WITH THE HIGH REACHED EARLY MONDAY AND COLD AIR ADVECTION AND SNOW THROUGH THE DAY. EVERYTHING ELSE LOOKS GOOD AND HAVE LEFT IT ALONE. JOHNSON && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 51 27 50 26 / 20 0 0 0 GCK 49 26 50 26 / 20 0 0 0 EHA 51 25 51 28 / 10 0 0 0 LBL 51 27 51 27 / 10 0 0 0 HYS 51 27 49 26 / 30 10 0 0 P28 59 32 51 28 / 20 10 0 0 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN27/08
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 412 AM CST THU JAN 12 2006 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-131100- 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- 412 AM CST (312 AM MST) THU JAN 12 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE PLAINS ON MONDAY. THE EXACT TRACK OF THIS STORM IS NOT CERTAIN BUT IT DOES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BRING SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATING SNOW AND WINDY CONDITIONS WITH IT AS IT MOVES THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. LACY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The wind gust was observed by the KSN weather lab at the Syracuse High School.
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