Outflow boundaries and a continued very unstable atmosphere responded to an upper level s/wv trough to produce additional thunderstorms across the area.
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The episode as NWS DDC wrote it up.
Outflow boundaries and a continued very unstable atmosphere responded to an upper level s/wv trough to produce additional thunderstorms across the 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 Jun 13, 2:31 AM CST, 10 hours 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 331 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... SIGNIFICANT CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION EVENT WAS UNDERWAY DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE DDC FA. AT 0800 UTC...THERE WERE THREE DISTINCT SMALL MCS'S THAT MADE UP THE LARGER SCALE CONVECTIVE EVENT. THE EASTERN MCS WAS EXITING EASTERN DDC FA AND WAS CENTERED BETWEEN GREAT BEND AND WICHITA. ANOTHER SMALL MCS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY SOUTH TO NEAR BUFFALO, OK...AND A NEWLY FORMED MCS QUICK ON THE HEELS OF THE 2ND ONE WAS MOVING INTO FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE SYNOPTIC FRONT AT THE SURFACE WAS FROM ROUGHLY THE WEST-CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...TO FAR SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS. GIVEN ALL THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY, IT WAS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO FIND THE FRONT. THE MAIN UPPER SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THIS CONVECTION WAS STILL WELL TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE DDC FA...CENTERED OVER SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. H25 JET STREAK OF ABOUT 80-100 KNOTS WILL EXTEND FROM THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THROUGH CENTRAL/EASTERN COLORADO TO WEST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SOUTHWEST KANSAS IN THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THIS JET STREAK. PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE MODELS SUGGEST THAT LOW LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS FORCING WILL BECOME RE-ESTABLISHED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL OR SOUTHWEST KANSAS BY AFTERNOON...ONCE THE CURRENT NOCTURNAL CONVECTIVE EVENT WANES...WHICH IT SHOULD AS LOW LEVEL JET VEERS DURING THE 10-15Z TIME FRAME THIS MORNING. THERE ARE CHALLENGES IN THE FORECAST FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WITH THE SYNOPTIC BAROCLINIC ZONE ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS. FAR NORTHWEST COUNTIES WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN THE 70 TO 73F RANGE WHILE SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES HIT THE 90 TO 92F RANGE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP DURING THE MID-LATE AFTERNOON HOURS IN THE ZONE OF STRONGEST SURFACE FRONTOGENESIS, WHICH MESOSCALE MODELS (NAM12, HRRR, RUC13) SUGGEST WILL BE ACROSS WESTERN OR CENTRAL DDC FA. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WX WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF THE BEST FRONTOGENETIC FORCING. WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW THE SPC GUIDANCE FOR TODAYS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH GREATEST HAIL AND TORNADO POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN FORECAST AREA. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN ALREADY ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL/EASTERN DDC FA...AND WITH MORE ON THE WAY FOR THESE SAME GENERAL AREAS...WILL BE EXTENDING THE AREAL FLOOD WATCH IN TIME (THROUGH 06Z MONDAY) AND ALSO ADD A FEW MORE COUNTIES (KIOWA, PRATT, STAFFORD). AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. AS THE UPPER WAVE FINALLY WEAKENS AND LIFTS OUT INTO THE MIDWEST REGION...WILL SEE BROAD SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BEGIN TO INFLUENCE WESTERN KANSAS WITH PREVAILING NORTHEASTERLY FLOW. ALL THE LOW LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH SOUTH SUCH THAT PRECIPITATION CHANCES ACROSS THE DDC FA ARE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED. HAVE LOWERED POPS AS A RESULT FOR MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT TO AROUND 12 TO 15 PERCENT...EXCEPT FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST DDC FA COUNTIES. -UMSCHEID DAYS 3-7... A MUCH DRIER FORECAST IS EXPECTED DURING THE MEDIUM RANGE STARTING BY TUESDAY AND LASTING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE OVERALL SYNOPTIC PATTERN EVOLVES INTO A SHORTWAVE RIDGE WHILE AN UPPER TROUGH SHIFTS THROUGH THE WESTERN CONUS INTO THE UPPER PLAINS BY MID TO LATE WEEK, WHICH WOULD TEND TO KEEP ANY ORGANIZED CONVECTION PATTERNS RELEGATED TO MID LEVEL FORCING OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS. WHILE AN UPPER JET LIFTS NORTHWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS, THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE JET, AS WELL AS THE SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF A LOW LEVEL BAROCLINIC ZONE/FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE POSITIONED NEAR NORTHERN KANSAS BY THURSDAY NIGHT OR FRIDAY. THIS MIGHT SUPPORT SOME LOW POPS ACROSS OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. TEMPERATURES SHOULD REBOUND AGAIN, BUT CERTAINLY NOT BE AS WARM AS WE EXPERIENCED DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF LAST WEEK. NEAR 90 DEGREES IS GOOD APPROXIMATION UNTIL FRIDAY WHEN WARMER AIR SOUTH OF THE BAROCLINIC ZONE APPROACHING 100 DEGREES MIGHT BE POSSIBLE AS DRIER AIR ADVECTS EASTWARD. && .AVIATION... VERY HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE WILL MEAN A CONTINUATION OF WEAL MCS MAINTENANCE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. CONVECTIVE TRENDS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR ANY PREVAILING TSRA, BUT AT LEAST AT KDDC, VCTS WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THROUGH 14 OR 15 UTC, WHILE GCK AND HYS ARE FARTHER BEING THE SURFACE FRONT. IN THE ABSENCE OF CONVECTION , THERE WILL BE A LACK OF CEILINGS, WHILE ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING, WHICH MAY AFFECT ALL THREE TERMINALS ONCE AGAIN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 84 59 77 58 / 80 80 20 20 GCK 79 55 74 56 / 70 50 20 10 EHA 80 56 74 59 / 60 50 10 10 LBL 83 58 75 59 / 70 60 20 20 HYS 82 57 73 56 / 70 70 20 10 P28 91 70 82 65 / 70 80 40 20 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR KSZ031-045-046-064>066- 076>081-086>090. && FN25/33/33
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1220 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-141730- 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- 1220 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 /1120 AM MDT SUN JUN 13 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND HEAVY RAIN...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TONIGHT. WHILE SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FLOODING AS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN FALLS OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC WRIGHT
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
754 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0751 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 NE TROUSDALE 37.81N 99.07W
06/13/2010 M2.32 INCH EDWARDS KS CO-OP OBSERVER
0751 AM HEAVY RAIN 8 N HUDSON 38.22N 98.66W
06/13/2010 E2.23 INCH STAFFORD KS CO-OP OBSERVER
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 3 N GREENSBURG 37.65N 99.29W
06/13/2010 M3.66 INCH KIOWA KS CO-OP OBSERVER
&&
MRUSSELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
758 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 AM HEAVY RAIN 8 NE MONTEZUMA 37.68N 100.34W
06/13/2010 M2.73 INCH GRAY KS CO-OP OBSERVER
&&
MRUSSELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
829 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 AM HEAVY RAIN 5 E FRIZELL 38.18N 99.10W
06/13/2010 M5.80 INCH PAWNEE KS TRAINED SPOTTER
THIS WAS THE TOTAL RAINFALL SINCE LATE YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH 8 AM THIS MORNING.
&&
LEEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
839 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0830 AM FLOOD BURDETT 38.19N 99.53W
06/13/2010 PAWNEE KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
SOME WATER COVERING COUNTY ROADS IN THE BURDETT AREA AND
WERE IMPASSABLE. BLACK TOP ROADS WERE OKAY, ALTHOUGH THE
DITCHES WERE FULL.
&&
LEEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
914 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0900 AM FLOOD SE MULLINVILLE 37.58N 99.47W
06/13/2010 KIOWA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
WATER HAS WASHED OVER HIGHWAY 54 JUST EAST OF
MULLINVILLE. TRAFFIC IS BEING RE-ROUTED THROUGH TOWN ONTO
HIGHWAY 400.
0906 AM FLOOD MULLINVILLE 37.59N 99.47W
06/13/2010 KIOWA KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS WATER OVER HIGHWAY 54 EAST OF
MULLINVILLE AT MILEPOST 98. PUBLIC REPORT RELAYED THROUGH
LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATES WATER TO BE 1 TO 1.5 FEET DEEP.
TRAFFIC IS BEING REDIRECTED ONTO HIGHWAY 400.
&&
WRIGHTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
929 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0918 AM FLOOD 2 WNW GRAY 38.16N 99.66W
06/13/2010 HODGEMAN KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
COUNTY ROAD 230 JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 156 HAD ABOUT A 200
YARD STRETCH OF WATER COVERING IT. THE ROAD WAS CLOSED.
&&
LEEThe Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:50 UTC.
8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ninnescah River was about 6 feet out of it's banks on both sides of highway 281 bridge south of town.
The hail started out as golfball sized then became quarter sized. All window in the farm house were broken out. Several wheat fields in the area were destroyed.
Trees were blown down at several farms in northwest Ellis county.
Winds were estimated to be 80 mph.
The dispatcher reported 60 mph winds and limbs breaking.
A carport was blown down by the strong wind.
Winds estimated at 60 mph broke 2 to 3 inch diameter tree branches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2010
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: 247212, 247213, 247214, 247216, 247223, 247217, 247225, 247218, 247227, 247224, 247219, 247220, 247221, 247228.