Weak surface convergence with an unstable atmosphere in place allowed high based thunderstorms to develop that produced strong winds.
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Weak surface convergence with an unstable atmosphere in place allowed high based thunderstorms to develop that produced strong winds.
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 16, 2:27 PM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 327 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TONIGHT AND HIGH TEMPERATURES AND STRONG WINDS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER THE NORTHWEST CONUS WILL MOVE NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. A SUBTROPICAL JET IS ALSO FORECAST TO PUSH INTO KANSAS FROM NEW MEXICO TONIGHT. THE OVERNIGHT MCS HAS PUSHED AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SOUTH INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WITH DEWPOINTS FALLING INTO THE 50S IN WESTERN KANSAS. CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS DEWPOINTS RECOVERING AS SOUTH WINDS BRING MOISTURE BACK NORTH. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP IN FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING AND SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT SUPPORTED BY THE SUBTROPICAL JET. SOME COULD BE SEVERE THIS EVENING WITH 55 KTS AT 250MB. WILL MAINTAIN CURRENT POPS AROUND 20 TO 30 PERCENT THIS EVENING. SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE BREEZY TONIGHT IN THE WARM SECTOR WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S. FOR THURSDAY LOOK FOR A COLD FRONT TO PUSH INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS AND BE JUST NORTH OF THE FA. VERY WARM AIR ALOFT WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS BY AFTERNOON WITH 850MB TEMPS FORECAST FROM 28 TO 32C. GOOD MOMENTUM MIXING WILL SUPPORT WIND GUSTS TO 35 KTS ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST FA. WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA WILL BE CLOSE TO BEING REALIZED. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 100 IN THE FAR WEST DEPENDING ON HOW FAR EAST THE DRYLINE PUSHES, WITH MID TO UPPER 90S ELSEWHERE. FOR THURSDAY NIGHT THE NORTHERN PLAINS UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE INTO MIDWEST AND CANADA WITH A COLD FRONT PUSHING TO NEAR ELKHART TO DODGE CITY. THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT LOOK ALL THAT PROBABLE AS THE FRONT UNDERCUTS WARM ALOFT. WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST. LOWS WILL BE MILD SOUTH OF THE FRONT AND IN THE MID 60S TO LOWER 70S WITH LOW TO MID 60S NORTH OF THE FRONT. ON FRIDAY AS MID LEVEL HEIGHTS REBUILD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT BACK NORTH AS A WARM FRONT. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE AGAIN AROUND 100 FAR WEST TO LOW TO MID 90S NORTHEAST. WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST WITH LACK OF DYNAMICAL FORCING EXCEPT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM FAR NORTH ALONG THE RETURNING WARM FRONT. DAYS 3-7... A FRONT WILL BE LINGERING IN OR NEAR OUR NRN CWA THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK BUT WITH THE WARM MID LVL TEMPS CURRENTLY PROGGED IT APPEARS THAT THE PREVIOUS SHIFTS HAD THE RIGHT IDEA WITH KEEPING IT HOT AND MAINLY DRY. 12Z MODEL RUNS FROM THE GFS AND ECMWF DO ATTEMPT TO GENERATE SOME PCPN EITHER SUNDAY NIGHT OR LATE MONDAY DEPENDING ON TIMING OF A WEAK UPPER WAVE EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW AND LOCATION OF THE SFC FRONT WHICH WILL BE IN OUR N/NW CWA. ALTHOUGH AM UNABLE TO COMPLETELY RULE OUT SMALL POPS EITHER DAY IN OUR NRN CWA...AT THIS TIME GIVEN THE WARM LAYER ALOFT AND UNCERTAINTY OF THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE FRONT HAVE OPTED TO LEAVE POP FORECAST AS IS. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...WILL FOLLOW THE MEAN TREND OF THE 85H TEMPS OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. AS A RESULT HIGHS ACROSS THE AREA APPEAR TO HOVER AROUND 100 DEGREES FOR SEVERAL DAYS. IN THE N/NW THE HIGHS MAY BRIEFLY DIP A LITTLE AS THE FRONT BRIEFLY DROPS INTO OUR CWA LATE THIS WEEKEND/EARLY NEXT WEEK. STILL WITH THIS SAID 85H TEMPS FROM THE GFS/ECMWF BEHIND THE FRONT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 90S AND CURRENTLY NOT SURE JUST HOW FAR SOUTH THIS FRONT WILL DROP INTO NRN KS. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. WILL HOWEVER BRING AN INCREASE IN LOW-MID LVL CLOUDS TO ALL THE TAF SITES EARLY TONIGHT AS AN UPPER WAVE, PROGGED BY BOTH THE NAM AND GFS, MOVES OUT OF NEW MEXICO AND ACROSS WRN KS. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF NEAR 25KTS WILL SUBSIDE AFTER SUNSET BUT SHOULD STAY AROUND 15KTS OVERNIGHT.-RB && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 69 99 67 98 / 20 0 0 0 GCK 68 99 64 97 / 20 0 0 0 EHA 65 101 64 100 / 20 0 0 0 LBL 67 100 65 100 / 20 0 0 0 HYS 70 97 67 93 / 20 20 20 20 P28 72 97 73 98 / 20 20 10 10 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN06/18
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 340 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-172045- 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- 340 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010 /240 PM MDT WED JUN 16 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG OR JUST WEST OF THE COLORADO STATE BORDER. THESE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE EAST INTO FAR WESTERN KANSAS DURING THE EVENING HOURS...PERHAPS REACHING AS FAR EAST AS A WAKEENEY TO DODGE CITY TO ASHLAND LINE BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL POSSIBLE AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THEN TO WEAKEN OR DISSIPATE AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING MAINLY WEST OF A SCOTT CITY TO GARDEN CITY TO LIBERAL LINE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 06
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:34 UTC.
11 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous power poles were blown down by the high wind in the Johnson City area.
Winds were estimated to be gusting to 70 mph.
An unspecified number of power poles were blown down.
A 300 pound dog house was also blown over.
Damage was done to the roof of a shed.
A Morton building was blown down in the vicinity of 7th street and Industrial Avenue.
Winds were estimated to be blowing at 70 mph.
Winds were estimated to be 70 mph.
A partially dead tree was blown down onto a porch damaging it's roof.
Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
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: 247237, 247250, 247266, 247252, 247243, 247247, 247255, 247257, 247258, 247249, 247260.