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NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 31, 3:22 PM MST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 422 PM MDT MON JUL 31 2006 .UPDATE... KGLD WSR-88D RADAR IMAGERY IS SHOWING ISOLATED CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACROSS THE CWA AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING FRONT IN THE NE PANHANDLE. EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE THIS EVENING ALTHOUGH COVERAGE WILL REMAIN ISOLATED. THUS INCLUDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT. SFC WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED TO BELOW ADIVSORY CRITERIA...AND WITH THE LOSS OF STRONG INSOLATION...HAVE CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE ERN PRTN OF THE CWA. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 240 PM MDT MON JUL 31 2006) DISCUSSION... MAIN FORECAST FOCUS IS ON TEMPS TUE AND WED AND TIMING OF PRECIP WITH APPROACHING FRONT. APPROACHING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS ALIGNED FROM SD TO THE NE PANHANDLE AND INTO SRN WY. THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SHARPLY DEFINED SFC TROF OVER THE NRN PLAINS. A TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF THE TROF AXIS THAT HAS SLOWLY MOVED INTO WRN KS PLUS STRONG MIXING HAS RESULTED IN WINDS MEETING ADVISORY CRITERIA OVER THE ERN PRTN OF THE CWA. WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF STRONG INSOLATION...THUS WILL LET THE ADVISORY EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT/8 PM CDT. AREA MOSAIC RADAR IMAGERY INDICATES SOME ISOLATED TSRA POPPING UP ALONG THIS TROF AXIS IN SOUTHEASTERN CO WITH MORE AREAL COVERAGE WEST OF THE DENVER METRO AREA. THIS FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SLIDE TO THE SOUTH AND HANG UP ACROSS ERN SD TO CENTRAL NE TO NORTHERN CO. IN RESPONSE...A MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW WILL DEVELOP IN PRTNS OF ERN CO. IN ADDITION SBCAPES WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 1000 J/KG IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING LLVL MOISTURE POOLING AHEAD OF THE SFC BOUNDARY. THUS KEPT CHANCE POPS IN ACROSS THE FAR WRN FRINGES OF CWA OVERNIGHT AS WEAK STORM MOTIONS WILL NEGATE ANY EWRD PROPAGATION. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS ACTIVITY. THE RGN WILL SEE ANOTHER MILD NIGHT TONIGHT AS SFC WINDS WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PREVENT BOUNDARY LAYER DECOUPLING...WITH LOWS RANGING FROM THE LOWER 60S IN ERN CO TO THE LOWER 70S OUT EAST. THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA BY TUE NIGHT AS ADVERTISED BY THE NAM/WRF WHILE THE GFS CONTINUES TO SLOW DOWN ITS PROPAGATION. PREFER THE NAM AS THIS HAS SHOWN THE MOST CONSISTENCY IN FROPA OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MODEL RUNS. TIME HEIGHT CROSS SECTIONS SHOW INCREASING LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE WHILE TEMPS IN THE 90S WILL LEAD TO A DEEPLY MIXED BOUNDARY LAYER. IN ADDITION WINDS WILL INCREASE IN THE LOWER AND MID LEVELS...WHICH WOULD ALSO INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WX. IN FACT SPC HAS THE AREA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK ON THEIR DAY TWO OUTLOOK. TSRA WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH WED AS THIS FRONT CONTINUES TO TRACK TO THE SOUTHEAST. HOWEVER MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW WILL KEEP CLOUDY AND MUCH COOLER CONDITIONS OVER THE RGN WITH PROJECTED HIGHS IN THE LOWER AND MID 80S. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HAVE CONSISTENTLY ADVERTISED ZONAL FLOW OVER THE WED THROUGH FRI TIME FRAME WITH SEVERAL S/WV TROFS MOVING ACROSS THE RGN ON THE WEST NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. TIME HEIGHT CROSS SECTIONS AND FORECAST BUFKIT SOUNDINGS OFF THE 12Z RUN OF THE GFS SHOW AN A DECREASE IN LLVL MOISTURE THU...REDUCING THE CHANCE OF ANY LINGERING POST FRONTAL PRECIP. THE GFS HAS A BULLSEYE OF PRECIP OVER MUCH OF KS FRI AND SAT ASSOCIATED WITH A VIGOROUS S/WV TROF MOVING INTO ERN KS. HOWEVER THIS MAY BE SUFFERING FROM CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK SO WILL LEAVE FRI AND SAT DRY. BOTH THE ECMWF AND GFS HAVE ALSO BEEN INDICATING A DIGGING TROF OFF THE PAC COAST BY THE UPCOMING WEEKEND...SUGGESTING A COOLER AND WETTER WX PATTERN MAY BE SETTING UP. FOR NOW...WILL LEAVE A DRY FCST GOING AS WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE CONSISTENCY IN MODEL RUNS BEFORE RAISING POPS. TEMPS OVER THE EXTENDED PERIODS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S THROUGH MON AND REFLECTED THIS TREND ACCORDANTLY. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && CLK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1045 AM MDT MON JUL 31 2006 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-011200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- 1145 AM CDT MON JUL 31 2006 /1045 AM MDT MON JUL 31 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO BECOME STATIONARY ALONG A LINE FROM HAIGLER TO STRATTON TO KIT CARSON. ALTHOUGH THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW...STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. SLOW STORM MOTIONS WILL ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOME LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS A STORM SYSTEM MOVES OVER THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. BLAIR
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 410 PM MDT MON JUL 31 2006 KSZ002-312245- RAWLINS- 510 PM CDT MON JUL 31 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ATWOOD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MENTZER
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:02 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning started a large grass fire which ultimately burned 1000 acres of pasture. Volunteer fire departments from 5 towns were called in to fight the blaze.
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