The remnants of Hurricane Dolly drifted across eastern Colorado and western Kansas, producing locally heavy rainfall and a few isolated severe wind and hail reports along the Colorado-Kansas border.
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The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
The remnants of Hurricane Dolly drifted across eastern Colorado and western Kansas, producing locally heavy rainfall and a few isolated severe wind and hail reports along the Colorado-Kansas border.
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 Jul 28, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 130 PM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 .SYNOPSIS... 130 PM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 REVIEW OF WATER VAPOR AND VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES REMNANTS OF DOLLY CURRENTLY SITUATED OVER THE CO/KS/OK BORDER WITH CU STARTING TO DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. A MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST WITH A FAIRLY POTENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES OF CANADA AND THE NORTHERN PLAINS. LONGWAVE TROUGH CONTINUES TO BE SITUATED OVER THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER THE HUDSON BAY REGION. FOLTZ && .DISCUSSION... 130 PM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERNS WILL BE TONIGHTS POPS AND HOW QUICKLY THINGS WILL MOVE OUT TUESDAY MORNING. FOCUS THEN SHIFTS TO A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH PROGGED TO MOVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING AND MAX TEMPS DURING THE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY TIME FRAME. GOING FORECAST HAD A PRETTY DECENT HANDLE ON PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT. WHILE CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE ENTIRE CWA...BEST SHOT FOR SIGNIFICANT PRECIP SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A MCCOOK TO TRIBUNE LINE. GIVEN PWAT VALUES IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES AND SLOW STORM MOTIONS...HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. HAVE OPTED TO HOLD OFF ON ANY FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD HIGHLIGHTS AS AERIAL COVERAGE IS STILL A BIT IN QUESTION. HAVE GENERALLY FOLLOWED HPC GUIDANCE FOR QPF THIS EVENING WITH A FEW TWEAKS. BULK OF PRECIP SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA BY 18Z TUESDAY. WITH SUBSIDENCE AND CLEARING SKIES...TEMPS WILL REACH THE LOWER 90S. MODELS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT ON SENDING A SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER THE TOP OF THE DESERT RIDGE BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION BACK TO THE AREA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAVE GONE AHEAD AND INSERTED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THIS TIME PERIOD AS A RESULT. AS THIS DISTURBANCE QUICKLY DEPARTS THURSDAY MORNING...UPPER RIDGE WILL EXPAND NORTHEASTWARD INTO OUR CWA. WITH H85 TEMPS IN THE LOW TO MID 30S C AND SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SHORTWAVE TROUGH...THERE WILL BE LITTLE IN THE WAY OF CLOUD COVER TO IMPEDE AFTERNOON TEMPS FROM REACHING THE CENTURY MARK. MID/UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES ITS STRONGHOLD ON THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR AFTERNOON TEMPS GETTING CLOSE TO...IF NOT EXCEEDING...105 F OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. WILL SEE AFTERNOON RH VALUES AOB 15 PERCENT THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY BUT IT APPEARS WINDS WILL BE GENERALLY LESS THAN 10 KTS WHICH MINIMIZES FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS TO SOME EXTENT. BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...WINDS START TO BECOME A BIT MORE SOUTHEASTERLY WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR THE ADVECTION OF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION. THIS WILL HELP HOLD TEMPS DOWN A FEW DEGREES BUT SHOULD STILL SEE UPPER 90S TO LOW 100S. GFS IS PROGGING FROPA SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING BUT HAVE OPTED TO FOLLOW THE MORE RELIABLE ECMWF GUIDANCE WHICH MAINTAINS SOUTHERLY FLOW AND DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. FOLTZ && .AVIATION... 1013 AM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 FOR THE 18Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL THROUGH MOST OF THE TAF PERIOD. THE ONE EXCEPTION WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON WHEN THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP NOT TOO LONG AFTER 18Z. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE SCATTERED ALONG AND NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR..INCLUDING KMCK AND KGLD...WITH MORE WIDESPREAD COVERAGE FURTHER SOUTH. WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP...IFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND GUSTS TO 40KTS. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE SHOULD BEGIN TO WANE AFTER 03Z...THOUGH A LINGERING SHOWER IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 12Z FOR EASTERN PORTIONS...INCLUDING KMCK. SFJ && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1012 AM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-291200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1012 AM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 /1112 AM CDT MON JUL 28 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION AS THE REMNANTS OF WHAT WAS ONCE HURRICANE DOLLY LIFT TO THE NORTHEAST. WHILE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...STORMS MAY MOVE SLOWLY AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS RESULTING IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN TOTALS ESPECIALLY FOR LOCATIONS SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING GENERALLY WEST OF A MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO COLBY AND LEOTI KANSAS LINE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ANY REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN TOTALS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. HOWEVER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JOHNSON/DDT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 432 PM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 KSZ001-NEZ079-282300- CHEYENNE-DUNDY- 432 PM MDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PARKS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. DLF
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:58 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Fourteen large trees were downed as a result of strong thunderstorm winds during the late afternoon/early evening hours along Hackberry Creek.
Report was received from the National Spotter Network. Intermittent power was also reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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