Isolated thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evening produced high winds and one hail report.
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The episode as NWS DDC wrote it up.
Isolated thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evening produced high winds and one hail report.
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 Jul 27, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 330 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... ONCE AGAIN TODAY, THE PRIMARY CHALLENGES FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE FORECAST CYCLE ARE RELATED TO THE TRAJECTORY AND SPEED OF THE CARCASS OF DOLLY AS SHE PROPAGATES FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. EXTENT AND THICKNESS OF CLOUD COVER, COVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURES ALL ARE LESS THAN CERTAIN. UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO BE CENTERED OVER TEXAS TODAY WITH INCREASING EASTERLY FLOW EVIDENT OVER THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. H5 TEMPERATURES WARMED FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO WESTERN KANSAS DURING THE LAST 24 HOURS AS THE WARMTH RELATED TO THE OLD TROPICAL CYCLONE SPREAD NORTHWARD OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. H5 HEIGHTS DURING THE LAST 24 HOURS HAVE HELD NEARLY STEADY ACROSS SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO...WHILE FALLS OF 30 TO 40 METERS OCCURRED OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND WESTERN KANSAS. NORTH-NORTHEAST PROGRESSION OF THE OLD TROPICAL CYCLONE REMNANT TOWARD THE HEIGHT FALL CENTER OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS SEEMS REASONABLE. COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE ARE EVIDENT IN SOUNDINGS FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES INTO THE PLAINS. H7 DEWPOINTS ARE IN EXCESS OF 5C ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THE COUNTRY...INCLUDING MUCH OF KANSAS. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE WELL ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY...AND THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM RELATIVELY WARM TOPPED CONVECTION OVER WESTERN KANSAS THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY NIGHT. THE GFS FINALLY IS IN AGREEMENT WITH THE MORE NORTHERN AND FASTER SOLUTION ON MOVEMENT OF DOLLY THAT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED BY THE ECMWF AND CANADIAN FOR SEVERAL RUNS, AND THE 12Z GFS APPEARS TO HAVE A REASONABLE HANDLE ON EVOLUTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ALREADY HAD DEVELOPED BY EARLY AFTERNOON OVER FAR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EVIDENT ON SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO INTO NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. SOUNDINGS AT AMA AND DDC WERE NEARLY MOIST ADIABATIC ABOVE ABOUT H6, AND INSTABILITY WAS MARGINAL. WITH A WEAKLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT, THE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY WILL BE RATHER PULSY IN CHARACTER BUT WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS. GUSTY WINDS ALSO ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS IN EXCESS OF 30 DEGREES. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD GRADUALLY PROPAGATE EASTWARD TONIGHT WITH WEAK UVV IN ADVANCE OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND REACH CENTRAL KANSAS BY MORNING. WITH THE UPPER LEVEL CYCLONE OVER SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS ON MONDAY...A MOIST, MARGINALLY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BE PRESENT TO SUPPORT WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EVEN WITH LIMITED SURFACE HEATING. THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE BEST OPPORTUNITIES FOR WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THAT SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS HAS HAD FOR SOME TIME. EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER LIKELY WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE RESTRICTED TO THE 80S AND LOWER 90S BY LACK OF INSOLATION. DEPENDING ON HOW THE WIND FIELD EVOLVES, THERE MAY BE ENOUGH SHEAR IN THE TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT A FEW FUNNEL CLOUDS MONDAY AFTERNOON NEAR THE UPPER LEVEL CYCLONE, ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE SUFFICENT BREAKS IN THE CLOUDINESS TO ALLOW FOR DEVELOPMENT OF LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY. THE COOL, MOIST AIR MASS GRADUALLY WILL MODIFY ON TUESDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL CYCLONE MOVES THROUGH EASTERN KANSAS. EVEN SO...UNCAPPED, MOIST SOUNDINGS WILL SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS, ESPECIALLY EAST OF DODGE CITY WITH AFTERNOON HEATING. TEMPERATURES TUESDAY WILL WARM BACK UP TO NEAR CLIMATOLOGICAL AVERAGES. DAYS 3-7... MAIN CONCERN IS HOW SOON MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES BREAK 100F IN THE WAKE OF THE REMNANTS OF DOLLY. TROPICAL CONVECTIVE FORCING REMAINS QUITE STRONG ACROSS THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE IN A WEST-NORTHWEST TO EAST-SOUTHEAST ORIENTED BAND CENTERED 10N/100E. HAVING A MJO COMPONENT, THIS AREA OF INTENSE TROPICAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS SLOWLY PROPAGATING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN. INTERACTIONS WITH THE EXTRATROPICS INVOLVING COMPONENTS SUCH AS THE MOUNTAINS AND BAROCLINIC WAVE PACKETS/EDDIES ARE WORKING TO INCREASE GLOBAL WESTERLY WIND FLOW AS I TYPE. IN FACT, UPDATED THROUGH 25 JULY PER ESRL/PSD THE CALCULATED TENDENCY OF RELATIVE ATMOSPHERIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM (AAM) WAS PLUS 30 HADLEYS. MUCH OF THE ANOMALOUS WESTERLY WIND FLOW (5 M/S 250MB ZONAL MEAN) IS APPEARING IN THE EQUATORIAL ATMOSPHERE, AND IS PROBABLY TO SHIFT POLEWARD DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. BOTH THE WB(2008) GWO AND WH(2004) MJO ARE IN APPROXIMATELY THE SAME LOCATIONS IN PHASE SPACE, ROUGHLY OCTANTS 4-5. WHILE STILL BEING IMPACTED BY OUR (WEAKLY) LOW AAM BASE STATE, CIRCUITS THROUGH PHASES 5-8 ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. THE REGIONAL SCALE CIRCULATION RESPONSES TO THE WEATHER-CLIMATE SITUATION ARE ALREADY APPEARING. AN ANOMALOUS UPPER TROPOSPHERIC ANTICYCLONE IS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN ALLOWING TROUGHS TO DEEPEN MORE AGGRESSIVELY ALONG THE USA PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. REGARDLESS OF THE DETAILS, I THINK THE SUBSEASONAL TREND WILL BE TO SEE RIDGING SHIFT CLOSER THE WEST COAST AND TROUGH DEVELOPMENT FROM CENTRAL CANADA INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY. USING THIS REASONING AS PART OF A FORECAST PROCESS, AND AS I DISCUSSED YESTERDAY, MY MODEL PREFERENCES REMAIN THE DETERMINISTIC ECMWF FOR WEEK-1 THEN THE ESRL/PSD ENSEMBLE FOR WEEKS 2-3. HOW ALL THE ABOVE FITS TOGETHER LEADING ME TO BELIEVE WHAT MODELS (IF ANY) ARE REASONABLE SOLUTIONS IS AN APPLICATION OF ON-GOING BASIC WEATHER-CLIMATE RESEARCH (SEE GSDM WEB LINK ON ESRL/PSD SITE). THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL CYCLONE DOLLY SHOULD EXIT MY CWA BY TUESDAY NIGHT. HENCE I ENDED THE RAINFALL. ONLY OTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR STORMS MAY BE LATE WEDNESDAY AND AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. TIED TO THE SUBSEASONAL DYNAMICS BRIEFLY DISCUSSED ABOVE, SATELLITE WATER VAPOR IMAGERY PRESENTS A NICE SIGNAL OF A STRONG JET (ROUGHLY 25M/S 250MB WIND ANOMALY) 45N/150W. THIS FEATURE WILL DIG THE NEXT TROUGH ALONG THE USA PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. BOTH THE ECMWF AND THE GFS SUGGEST A DOWNSTREAM JET STREAK TO MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND AMPLIFY A TROUGH EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THAT IS NOT UNREASONABLE HOWEVER, I THINK THE GFS IS TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH THE AMPLIFICATION. HENCE HIGHER TERRAIN STORMS PROPAGATING AT LEAST INTO THE WESTERN CWA IS A POSSIBILITY LATE WEDNESDAY (PER PREVIOUS SHIFT). A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE CWA BY THURSDAY NIGHT MAY ALSO SCATTER A FEW STORMS LATE THAT AFTERNOON. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES ARE A BIT TRICKY. I SUGGESTED SLIGHTLY ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY WEDNESDAY, THEN AROUND A 100F AHEAD OF THE WEAK COLD FRONT THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE ROUGHLY 5-8 DEGREES COOLER FRIDAY. I PREFER THE WARMER 850MB ECMWF TEMPERATURES FOR NEXT WEEKEND. INITIAL RIDGE AMPLIFICATION ACROSS THE ROCKIES IS PROBABLE TO EXPAND INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN STATES, WITH THE STRONGEST WESTERLY FLOW WELL NORTH OF MY CWA. THUS THE HOTTEST AIR NEXT WEEKEND IS LIKELY TO BE FOCUSED ON WESTERN NEBRASKA (ECMWF SUGGESTS 850MB T 34C). HOWEVER, UPPER 90S TO SLIGHTLY OVER 100F IS NOT UNREASONABLE. AS TROUGH DEVELOPMENT STARTS TO OCCUR FROM CANADA INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL STATES, THE UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WESTERLIES AND THE HOTTEST AIR WILL SHIFT SOUTH. WIDESPREAD MAXIMUMS 100-105F ARE POSSIBLE EARLY WEEK-2. HOWEVER, THERE MAY BE A DECENT COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE ROUGHLY DAYS 10-14 WHICH MAY BRING A PERIOD OF COOLER TEMPERATURES. HENCE THE OUTLOOK WILL READ ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WITH A COOLING TREND AND NEAR NORMAL RAINFALL. THE RAINFALL WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH STORMS ALONG THE COLD FRONT, AND OPTIMISTICALLY A DAY OR TWO OF NORTHWEST FLOW MCS ACTIVITY. HOWEVER, OTHER THAN FROM THE REMNANTS OF DOLLY AND A FEW SYNOPTIC EVENTS, AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF MUCH NEEDED WIDESPREAD RAINFALL FOR THE WESTERN COUNTIES DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. .AVIATION... GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS FOR THE TAF SITES THROUGH TONIGHT. RAINSHOWERS AND A FEW STORMS ARE SLOWLY INCREASING IN COVERAGE ACROSS THE FAR WESTERN COUNTIES, AND MAY IMPACT KGCK AFTER ABOUT 22Z. AFTER SUNSET SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS IS MOST LIKELY FROM KGCK-KDDC AND SOUTH. ON MONDAY THIS PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST, AND MAY RESULT IN AT LEAST MVFR CONDITIONS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 71 88 68 91 / 30 50 30 20 GCK 68 87 66 92 / 40 40 20 10 EHA 67 85 64 93 / 60 40 20 10 LBL 68 86 66 94 / 40 50 20 10 HYS 72 93 68 91 / 20 40 30 30 P28 74 94 70 92 / 10 30 40 20 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN01/23/23
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1155 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-281100- 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- 1155 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 /1055 AM MDT SUN JUL 27 2008/ 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF KANSAS BY LATE AFTERNOON AND GRADUALLY MOVE EASTWARD TO NEAR A LINE FROM GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL BY MIDNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EASTWARD TOWARD CENTRAL KANSAS BY MONDAY MORNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE REMNANTS OF FORMER HURRICANE DOLLY WILL MOVE NORTHWARD AND CROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. THIS WILL BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN TO THE AREA IN THE FORM OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...BUT THE EXACT AREA WHERE EXCESSIVE RAIN MIGHT FALL IS TOO DIFFICULT TO TELL AT THIS TIME. ADDITIONALLY...A FEW STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 01
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:35 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A barn was completely destroyed with the debris blown 1/4 of a mile into a field. Several semi trailers were also blown of a road.
A shed was destroyed by high winds and several power poles were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2008
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: 127971, 127973, 127972.