Thunderstorms in the evening across south central counties produced hail and high wind.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS DDC wrote it up.
Thunderstorms in the evening across south central counties produced hail and high wind.
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 8, 12:08 PM CST, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 108 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... ONCE AGAIN A DAY WITH A SFC BOUNDARY EXTENDING ACROSS OUR CWA. TODAY A S/W TROF VISIBLE FROM W/V LOOP AND PICKED UP FAIRLY WELL BY ALL MODELS OVER ERN COLORADO EARLIER TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE E ACROSS SW KS THIS EVENING AND BASED ON THE SFC BOUNDARY AND INSTAB AXIS BASED ON THE GOES SOUNDER AND LAPS SHOULD ONCE AGAIN SEE A FEW TSRA DEVELOP LATE TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. LOCATION OF CONVECTION WILL DEPEND ON FRONTAL LOCATION AND BEST MCON AND INSTAB SO WILL MAKE LAST MINUTE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE GRIDS AS NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON BASED ON RADAR AND SAT TRENDS. CONVECTION THEN MOVES OUT OF THE AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH ANTHER HOT AND IN STORE FOR THURSDAY. BY LATE THURSDAY BOTH NAM AND GFS BRING A S/W TROF ACROSS OUR CWA WITH A RIDGE AXIS OF MOISTURE EXTENDING ACROSS P28 TO NEAR KDDC. THIS AREA APPEARS TO BE OUR BETTER CHANCE FOR PCPN THURSDAY NIGHT SO WILL RETAIN SMALL POPS HERE LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT. AS FOR TEMPERATURES WILL GO WITH A BLEND BETWEEN MET AND MAV. MAV LATELY HAS BEEN TOO WARM WHILE BE MET HAS BEEN A LITTLE ON THE COOL SIDE. THE WARM 85H MAV TEMPS ALSO SUPPORT THIS BLEND SO WILL KEEP TEMPS BASICALLY WILL KEEP TEMPS AROUND 100 BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. DAYS 3-7... THE SUMMER FIXTURE...THAT IS THE LARGE UPPER ANTICYCLONE...IS EXPECTED TO EXPAND AND BECOME CENTERED OVER THE WEST CENTRAL PLAINS FOR MUCH OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD. VERY HIGH MID LEVEL HEIGHTS WILL DEVELOP WITH NEAR 600 DAM 500MB HEIGHTS NEAR CENTER OF ANTICYCLONE BY EARLY NEXT WEEK VERY NEAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDENCE IS EXPECTED TO DOMINATE THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD THUS THE ENTIRE EXTENDED FORECAST THIS CYCLE WILL BE POP-FREE. H85 TEMPERATURE FORECAST OF +30 TO +32C SUPPORT LOW 100S EACH DAY OF THE EXTENDED THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. A PROLONGED STRETCH OF AT OR ABOVE 100 DEGREES IS EXPECTED OVER ALL OF THE DDC CWA. DAILY OSCILLATIONS IN THE PLACEMENT/STRENGTH OF THE ANTICYCLONE WILL ALLOW FOR SUBTLE DAILY FLUCTUATIONS IN THE HIGHS...BUT AS A RULE...AM EXPECTING 102-103 FOR MEAN AVERAGE HIGHS THROUGHOUT. A FEW 105 AND 106 READINGS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. && .AVIATION... AN UPPER LEVEL SHEAR AXIS WAS MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS THE DDC CWA THIS AFTERNOON WITH A SURFACE TROUGH/WEAK FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR ASHLAND NORTHEAST TO THE GREAT BEND AREA. THIS WEAK SURFACE CONVERGENCE ZONE WILL SUPPORT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 21Z ALONG AND EAST OF THE AFOREMENTIONED LINE. AT THIS TIME...WILL LEAVE THUNDER AND CB MENTION OUT OF TAF FORECAST FOR GCK AND HYS AS THESE LOCATIONS BUT CARRY A CB FOR A FEW HOURS IN THE DDC TAF CENTERED AROUND 00Z. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL NEXT 24 HOURS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 72 100 73 101 / 10 0 0 0 GCK 69 101 71 102 / 0 0 0 0 EHA 69 101 70 100 / 0 10 20 0 LBL 69 103 69 102 / 10 10 20 0 HYS 68 99 72 101 / 20 0 0 0 P28 75 101 75 101 / 20 10 20 0 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN18/25/25
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 430 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-091000- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 430 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 /330 AM MDT WED AUG 8 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A WEAK COLD FRONT. THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR THESE STORMS WILL BE WITHIN APPROXIMATELY 50 MILES OF A LACROSSE TO LIBERAL AXIS. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WIDELY SCATTERED LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE REGION ALREADY DISCUSSED. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC EKB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
225 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0240 AM TSTM WND GST 7 NNE WAKEENEY 39.12N 99.83W
08/08/2007 E60 MPH TREGO KS PUBLIC
TWO INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMB BLOWN DOWN ALONG WITH PEA
SIZE HAIL AND 0.40 INCHES OF RAIN.
&&
LACYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
555 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0245 AM HAIL 6 N WAKEENEY 39.11N 99.88W
08/08/2007 E1.00 INCH TREGO KS PUBLIC
ALSO ESTIMATED 60 MPH WIND
&&
06The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:29 UTC.
20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
High winds also occurred with the hail.
Six power poles were snapped off near the ground.
Eight power poles were blown down.
Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
Rainfall of 2.30 inches was reported.
Nine power poles were blown down.
Rainfall of 3.50 inches was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2007
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: 58969, 58939, 58941, 58971, 58972, 58942, 58973, 58944, 58947, 58948, 58950, 58967, 58974, 58952, 58954, 58955, 58956, 58957, 58975, 58958, 58959, 58960, 58961, 58968, 58976, 58963, 58964, 58965, 58966.