Runoff from heavy rain that fell on the 7th and 8th produced some minor flooding.
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Runoff from heavy rain that fell on the 7th and 8th produced some minor flooding.
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 Sep 8, 2:14 PM CST, 9 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 314 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 2009 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... WARM FRONT WAS FINALLY STARTING TO SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE RUC SHOWING 0-2KM FGEN IMPROVING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY. LAPS WAS ALSO SHOWING CAPES GREATER THAN 1000J/KG ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THIS BOUNDARY AS WELL. GIVEN THIS LATE DAY INSTAB AND IMPROVING LOW LVL FORCING WILL KEEP AT LEAST SOME SLT CHC POPS IN FOR LATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS SFC BOUNDARY...ESPECIALLY IN OUR E/SE CWA WHERE A WEAK UPPER WAVE IS PROGGED TO CROSSE BETWEEN 00-03Z. THIS PCPN SHOULD EXIT THE AREA BEFORE MIDNIGHT BUT AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT STARTS TO CROSS NW KS DURING THE PRE DAWN HOURS THE CHANCE FOR PCPN WILL START TO IMPROVE ONCE AGAIN ACROSS OUR N/NW CWA. 12Z MODELS REMAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT MOVING THIS COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY SO WILL KEEP MENTION OF SHRA/TSRA GOING UNTIL THIS FRONT EXITS EARLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BASED ON CLOUD COVER AND PCPN WILL FAVOR THE COOLER MET/MAV FOR HIGHS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON OVER THE WARMER MOSGUIDE AND 2M NAM TEMPS. BY EVENING A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD INTO THE CNTL PLAINS SO THE TREND OF ENDING PCPN EARLY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH STILL LOOKS ON TRACK. ALSO WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE CLOUD COVER DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AS WINDS BECOME LIGHT. WEAK CAA IS THEN PROGGED FOR PARTS OF OUR CWA ON THURSDAY AS AN E/SE FLOW DEVELOPS ACROSS THE AREA. WITH THIS IN MIND AM SOMEWHAT RELUCTANT TO GO AS WARM AS THE NAM SUGGESTS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. WILL THEREFORE FAVOR THE COOLER GFS AND ECMWF SFC-85H TEMP SOLUTIONS. DAYS 3-7... THE ECMWF WAS GENERALLY FOLLOWED TODAY AS THE OPERATIONAL GFS WAS APPARENTLY TOO FAR WEST WITH THE UPPER LOW BY THE WEEKEND. ALMOST ALL OF THE GFS ENSEMBLES WERE LIKE THE ECWMF, WITH THE UPPER LOW PUSHING SOUTHWARD INTO THE NEBRASKA BY SATURDAY, THEN BECOMING NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SEPT 16. LOW TO MID LEVEL FLOW SOUTH OF THE UPPER LOW WILL HAVE A DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT WHICH OUGHT TO DISCOURAGE WRAPAROUND PRECIP. OUR FCST AREA MAY EXPERIENCE SHOWERS AS THE FRONT COMES DOWN LATE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT, AND THEN ONLY SOME CLOUDINESS OR LIGHT PRECIP/SHOWERS AS THE SYSTEM SPINS TO OUR NORTH FOR SEVERAL DAYS. THE ECMWF IS PROBABLY TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH PRECIP MON/TUE. IN MY EXPERIENCE THIS MODEL TENDS TO OVERDO STRATIFORM PRECIP. TEMPERATURES WILL AVERAGE SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW CLIMATOLOGY FROM SEPT 12 TO 16TH. BUT HIGHER DEWPOINTS FROM 50-55F WRAPPING AROUND THE SYSTEM SUN-TUE SHOULD PREVENT TEMPS FROM DROPPING VERY LOW AT NIGHT. && .AVIATION... MVFR CIGS SHOULD ERODE AT HAYS BY 00Z AS THE EFFECTS OF THE MORNING MCS WANE. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE MORNING MCS MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR ISOLATED STORMS IN VICINITY OF DDC/GCK THIS EVENING, OTHERWISE VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PERSIST. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PASS THE TAF SITES BETWEEN 11 AND 15Z WEDNESDAY. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH BEHIND THE FRONT ALONG WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 64 82 61 80 / 20 40 40 10 GCK 64 81 59 81 / 30 30 30 10 EHA 61 85 59 80 / 20 40 30 10 LBL 65 84 62 81 / 20 40 40 10 HYS 64 79 60 80 / 50 50 20 10 P28 67 85 67 83 / 20 50 50 20 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN18/24/24
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 444 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 2009 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-090945- 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- 444 AM CDT TUE SEP 8 2009 /344 AM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER TODAY NEAR A MESOSCALE LOW THAT WAS GENERATED FROM THE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THE BEST LOCATION FOR THESE RENEWED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. ANOTHER AREA WHERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP WILL BE ALONG THE KANSAS-COLORADO BORDER NEAR A LEESIDE SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE, HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. AN ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER WILL LIKELY MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHERN KANSAS LATE TONIGHT ALONG A COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KANSAS WEDNESDAY WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED. HEAVY RAINFALL WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY AS STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLOW MOVING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR SEVERE WEATHER...HOWEVER ANY REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL OR FLOODING ARE APPRECIATED. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC UMSCHEID
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
South Downer creek was out of it's banks.
Water was flowing across Kaw Road, 2 miles south of Highway 96.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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