Thunderstorms moved across southern Nebraska around daybreak. Lightning apparently damaged a power substation insulator, resulting in power outages.
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Thunderstorms moved across southern Nebraska around daybreak. Lightning apparently damaged a power substation insulator, resulting in power outages.
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 6, 2:30 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 230 AM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 .DISCUSSION...THE MID/UPPER RIDGE WAS LOCATED NEAR THE ARKLATEX REGION THIS MORNING AS THE TRI-STATE AREA REMAINS ON THE FRINGE OF THE STRONGER MID/UPPER FLOW. TODAY-TONIGHT... A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL COLORADO EARLY THIS MORNING LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. INITIAL ACTIVITY APPEARED TO DEVELOP ALONG NOSE OF LLJ ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN KANSAS...HOWEVER THIS ACTIVITY DRIFTED ENE AND DISSIPATED WHILE ANOTHER ROBUST AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED FURTHER WEST ALONG EASTERN PERIPHERY OF MOIST PLUME. WILL LIKELY INSERT A MORNING MENTION BASED ON EARLY MORNING TRENDS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH CONVERGENCE IN VICINITY OF LEE TROUGH. NAM/GFS SUGGEST A WEAKER CAP TODAY COMPARED TO YESTERDAY SO WILL INCREASE POPS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS AS ML CAPE EXCEEDS 2000 J/KG ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. MON NIGHT APPEARS RATHER SIMILAR WITH DEVELOPING LLJ ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. INCREASED POPS ALONG NOSE OF LLJ AND KEPT A MENTION THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. TUE-WED... RIDGE WILL CONTINUE SLIGHT SHIFT TO THE EAST THANKS TO A DEEP SHORTWAVE TROUGH ON THE WEST COAST. HOWEVER...THE GREAT PLAINS REMAIN UNDER SOUTHWEST FLOW FOR THIS PERIOD ALLOWING FOR CONSIDERABLE WARMING. NAM AND GFS HINT AT A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE REGION WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY AND A SHALLOW PRE FRONTAL TROUGH TUESDAY. FOR WEDNESDAY...UPPER LEVEL JET DYNAMICS COULD HELP WITH DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION ALONG THE FRONT...AS ECMWF...NAM... AND GFS SHOW THE TRI STATE REGION IN THE RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF A 250 MB JET. WITH ALL FEATURES...TIMING IS STILL SOMEWHAT UNCERTAIN...AND THUS STILL HARD TO GET TOO SPECIFIC WITH POPS. && .AVIATION...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CREATING MVFR/BRIEF IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 14Z AT BOTH KGLD AND KMCK TERMINALS BEFORE ACTIVITY DIMINISHES/MOVES NORTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG SFC TROUGH AXIS ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && MCGUIREJOHNSON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 410 AM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-071200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 410 AM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 /510 AM CDT MON AUG 6 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED MORNING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE BEST CHANCE FOR MORNING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE THIS AFTERNOON WITH A CONTINUED CHANCE OVERNIGHT. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 36. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:58 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning apparently struck an insulator at the Beverly, Nebraska substation, resulting in power outages across Dundy and Hitchcock counties for about an hour.
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