Excessive rainfall late on the 22nd resulted in creek flooding downstream from the original heavy rain area.
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Excessive rainfall late on the 22nd resulted in creek flooding downstream from the original heavy rain area.
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 Oct 23, 1:40 PM CST, 9 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 240 PM CDT THU OCT 23 2008 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... THE SIGNIFICANT FORECAST DECISIONS CENTER AROUND THE TIMING OF ENDING THE CURRENT PRECIPITATION, AND THEN HOW FAST TO DECREASE CLOUDS BEHIND THE PRECIP CLEARING. A SURFACE ANALYSIS FROM 19Z SHOWED A STRONG BUT WEAKENING LOW PRESSURE CENTER BETWEEN SLN AND MHK, MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. AN OCCLUDED FRONT ARCHED FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF THIS LOW EASTWARD THROUGH EASTERN NEBRASKA THEN SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI, WHERE IT TURNS INTO A COLD FRONT STRETCHING SOUTH THROUGH MISSISSIPPI AND INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. BOTH RADAR AND SATL LOOPS CONFIRM A WELL DEFINED MID AND UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE CENTER NEAR THE SAME SURFACE CENTER LOCATION. THE CIRCULATION AROUND THE UPPER AND LOWER LEVEL LOWS HAS RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD -RA/-SN TODAY. NO SNOW ACCUMULATIONS HAVE BEEN HEARD OF YET. THE NORTHEAST TIP OF MY CWA COULD SEE AN INCH OR TWO BEFORE THE LIGHT SNOW ENDS TONIGHT. FAIRLY CONFIDENT THE GRADIENT FORCES HELPING STRONG WINDS TO WORK DOWNWARD WILL BE DECOUPLING THIS AFTERNOON AND FOR NOW PLAN ON HAVING THE NPW WIND ADVISORY CANCELED PRIOR TO ZONE ISSUANCE. WINDS HAVE SURE BUFFETED OUR CWA LATELY. ALL MODELS PUSH THE PRECIP EAST WITH THE CIRCULATION PULLING EAST TONIGHT. THE NORTHEAST CWA SHOULD BE THE LAST AREA TO RECEIVE PRECIP, AND THEY WILL ALSO REMAIN THE COLDEST. THE GFS PUMPS OUT THE GREATEST QPF (O.19) IN MY FAR NORTH COUNTIES, WHILE THE NAM AND ECMWF ARE MORE IN LINE WITH 0.10 OR LESS. FAVOR THE NAM AND ECMWF FOR NOW, AS THE GFS HAS BEEN TOO WET OF LATE. ALSO, THE GFS IS FARTHER SOUTH WITH MEASURABLE RAIN/SNOW AND ALL OTHER MODELS PULL THE PRECIP EAST OF OUR CWA BY 24/06Z WHILE THE GFS HANGS ON UNTIL AFTER 24/12Z. WILL KEEP LOW POPS GOING FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH 06Z TONIGHT, THEN SHIFT SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SNOW EAST AND GRADUALLY NORTHEAST BY 12Z. NO POPS AFTER 12Z FRIDAY PLANNED. DID DELAY THE CLEARING OUT ON FRIDAY FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. THE COLD WRAP-AROUND MID LAYERS AND ALOFT SHOULD KEEP PLENTY OF CLOUDINESS OVER NORTH AND EAST SECTIONS OF MY CWA UNTIL LATE IN THE DAY FRIDAY. HOPEFULLY, THE WESTERN COUNTIES WILL SEE A MOSTLY SUNNY FRIDAY. TEMPERATES HAVE BEEN A BIT TRICKY LATELY, DUE IN PART TO WINDS AND PRECIP. STAYED PRETTY CLOSE TO THE GOING FORECAST TEMPERATURES, AS THEY ARE CLOSE TO (OR A BIT BELOW) GUIDANCE NUMBERS AND WELL WITHIN ISC TOLERANCE LEVELS. WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT SOUTHWEST WINDS AT OR UNDER 5 MPH, PUT IN PATCHY FROST FOR MY SOUTHERN CWA AND AREAS OF FROST FOR MY NORTHERN 2/3RDS, BETWEEN 09Z AND 13Z FRI NT/SAT MORN. A FROST ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED LATER. DAYS 3-7... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BE LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES REGION TO BEGIN THE PERIOD SUNDAY. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT INDICATING THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH CONTINUING TO LIFT NORTHEAST AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGING BUILDS ACROSS THE WESTERN CONUS. MEANWHILE, A SECONDARY UPPER LEVEL S/WAVE TROUGH WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES SUNDAY. THIS PULSE WILL HELP DROP A SECONDARY SURGE OF COLD AIR INTO WESTERN KANSAS BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. LOW TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING WILL ACTUALLY BE NEAR TO JUST ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE SEASON. BOTH GFS AND ECMWF(HIRES) INDICATE TEMPERATURES AT H85 IN THE MID TEENS(C) ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA WITH FAIRLY LIGHT WINDS. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE 40S(F) ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WITH A FEW UPPER 30S(F) POSSIBLE. THE SURGE OF COLDER AIR WILL POUR INTO WESTERN KANSAS LATER SUNDAY DROPPING H85 TEMPERATURES DOWN TO JUST ABOVE 0C ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. AGAIN, HOW HIGH TEMPERATURES GET BEFORE THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH WILL BE THE KEY ISSUE HERE. REGARDLESS, TEMPERATURES SHOULD PEAK EARLIER IN THE DAY BEFORE STEADILY FALLING DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING TO OUR WEST WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS BY MID WEEK WITH LEE SIDE TROUGHING BEGINNING TO DEVELOP TUESDAY. AFTER A COOL DAY MONDAY IN THE WAKE OF FROPA, THIS WILL ALLOW A GRADUAL WARMING TREND ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION... A SLOWLY WEAKENING SURFACE LOW WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS THIS EVENING BEFORE BEGINNING TO MOVE EAST OUT OF KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT, NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A FEW SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WILL LINGER THIS EVENING IN THE VICINITY OF ALL TAF SITES BEFORE PRECIP BEGINS COMING TO AN END OVERNIGHT FROM WEST TO EAST. PERIODS OF LIGHT SNOW MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF KHYS. LOW LEVEL STRATUS WILL PERSIST THIS EVENING WITH SKIES BEGINNING TO CLEAR WEST TO EAST LATE TONIGHT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY MORNING. EXPECT SOME PERIODS OF MVFR CIGS THIS EVENING WITH GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT BEGINNING AFTER 04Z IN THE WEST IN THE VICINITY OF KGCK. VFR CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP AT ALL TAF SITES BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 31 54 35 72 / 20 0 0 0 GCK 30 53 34 71 / 20 0 0 0 EHA 31 59 36 74 / 10 0 0 0 LBL 32 58 36 73 / 10 0 0 0 HYS 30 49 33 70 / 40 0 0 10 P28 35 54 35 72 / 40 0 0 10 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORY... NONE. && FN12/32/32
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Slow runoff from rain that occurred earlier in the week produced creek flooding that ran over secondary roads for several days.
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, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 138827.