A cold front moving into the area helped to trigger thunderstorms during the evening.
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A cold front moving into the area helped to trigger thunderstorms during the evening.
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 3, 1:49 PM MST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 349 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011 .DISCUSSION... DAYS 1-2... THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF COLD FRONT IN THE NORTH FA AND ALSO IN THE WEST FA TONIGHT, THEN AGAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A COLD FRONT. A NORTHERN BRANCH SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE FROM MONTANA AND INTO THE DAKOTAS TONIGHT THEN INTO THE UPPER GREAT LAKES ON SATURDAY. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS ON SUNDAY. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL KEEP A COLD FRONT ACROSS OUR FAR NORTHERN FA TONIGHT WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL CONTINUE WITH HIGHEST POPS AROUND 30 PERCENT TONIGHT NEAR THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND AROUND 20 POPS WEST OF LINE FROM DIGHTON TO MEADE. THE HRRR MESOSCALE MODEL SUPPORTS SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF DIGHTON TO MEADE AND THE BEST CHANCES NORTH FA. COLD OUTFLOW FROM NORTHERN STORMS MAY HELP PUSH THE COLD FRONT MORE SOUTH TOWARDS DODGE CITY BY MORNING AND THIS IS WHAT THE NAM SHOWS. THE GFS KEEPS THE FRONT MORE NORTH. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS WITH HIGH BASED STORMS TONIGHT, AND SOME SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE. OVERNIGHT LOWS LOOK TO BE IN THE LOW 70S EAST FA TO THE MID AND UPPER 60S WEST. EXPECT COOLER TEMPS FAR NORTH AROUND THE LOWER 60S BECAUSE OF STORMS. FOR SATURDAY THE COLD FRONT MAY BE JUST NORTH OF DODGE CITY STRETCHING EAST TO WEST. BY AFTERNOON THE NAM MODEL SHOWS THE COLD FRONT TO BE STALLED OUT JUST NORTH OF DODGE CITY WHILE THE GFS HAS IT FROM NEAR SYRACUSE TO WAKEENEY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE VERY UNSTABLE NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT WITH AROUND 2500 J/KG. WILL GO WITH 30 POPS FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY NORTH FA. IF THE NAM IS CORRECT WITH GOOD UPSLOPE FLOW NORTH OF THE FRONT THIS WILL ENHANCE THE POTENTIAL FOR A MARGINALLY SEVERE MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX (MCS). HIGH BASED STORMS INITIALLY COULD SUPPORT STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL THEN IF THE MCS FORMS MORE WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE COULD OCCUR IN THE EVENING. LOOK FOR HIGHS AROUND 100 SOUTH OF FRONT AND LOW 90S NORTH. FOR SATURDAY NIGHT ANY STORMS SHOULD QUICKLY DISSIPATE BY AROUND MIDNIGHT WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND LACK OF DYNAMIC FORCING. IF THE MCS FORMS IT WILL BE MOVING OUT OF THE FA AROUND MIDNIGHT. LOWS WILL BE AGAIN IN THE LOW 70S EAST TO MID 60S ELSEWHERE. FOR SUNDAY THE NAM MODEL HAS A COLD FRONT LIFTING NORTH TO SAINT JOHN TO SCOTT CITY WHILE THE GFS HAS IT UP TOWARDS GOODLAND AND INTO NEBRASKA. WILL HEDGE TOWARD THE NAM MODEL AS IT DOES BETTER WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT COULD HAVE OCCURRED FROM SATURDAY NIGHT CONVECTION. FOR NOW WILL KEEP SUNDAY DRY BUT LATTER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO ADD A POP ALONG ANY BOUNDARY FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HIGHS WILL BE HOT SOUTH OF THE FRONT AROUND 101 AND THE MID 90S NORTH. .FIRE WEATHER... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE NEAR CRITICAL VALUES LATE THIS AFTERNOON OF AROUND 15 PERCENT AND GUSTY WINDS, AND THEN AGAIN FOR BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THIS AREA OF CONCERN IS GENERALLY WEST OF A DODGE CITY TO ASHLAND LINE AND SOUTH OF LINE FROM JETMORE TO GARDEN CITY AND SYRACUSE. LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO MONITOR. DAYS 3-7... CONFIDENCE IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD BEGINS AT THE HIGH LEVEL AND THEN DECREASES TO MODERATE AT BEST AND THE END OF THE PERIOD...FAIRLY TYPICAL. WE WILL SEE HOT TEMPERATURES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH HIGHS AROUND 100 DEG F FOR MOST LOCATIONS. A LARGE AND STRONG 500 HPA RIDGE RETROGRADES TO THE WEST CAUSING ALL THIS HOT WEATHER TO CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. BY THURSDAY, AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS WHICH SHOULD BRING A SURFACE COLD FRONT ALONG WITH IT. LOWER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY (LOWER 90S FOR NOW). THE 00Z AND 12Z ECMWF HAS FLIPPED FLOPPED RECENTLY WITH THE 00Z MODEL SHOWING MORE PRECIPITATION ACROSS KANSAS WHILE THE 12Z RUN KEEPS THE HEAVIER QPF ACROSS NEBRASKA. ITS TOO EARLY TOO TELL WHICH WILL BE CORRECT BUT DID ADD SLIGHT POPS IN ON DAY 8. HEADING INTO THE END OF WEEK ONE AND INTO THE WEEK TWO PERIOD, NOT MUCH CONFIDENCE IN A CHANGE IN THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN. RECENT ENSEMBLE GFS MJO FORECASTS SHOW A WEAKENING TREND IN THE MJO SIGNAL. THE GWO PHASE SPACE DIAGRAM SHOWS THAT GLOBAL RELATIVE ATMOSPHERIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM IS LOW AND ENDS IN PHASE SPACE 5. PHASE SPACE 5 FAVORS MORE RIDGING. THE NAO INDEX IS FORECAST TO BECOME NEGATIVE WHICH MIGHT SUGGEST SOME TROUGHING ACROSS THE EASTERN CONUS WITH NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT ACROSS THE PLAINS. THIS COULD HINT AT THE POTENTIAL FOR MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX EVENTS, HOWEVER, NORTHWESTERLY FLOW IS NOT PREDICTED IN THE LONG RANGE MODELS. BOTTOM LINE, WEEK TWO LOOKS MOSTLY QUIET WITH SEVERE WEATHER WELL TO OUR NORTH SAVE SOME CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY MOVING OFF THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF COLORADO. RECENT GFS AND EC SUGGEST COOLING ALOFT WHICH MAY PROMOTE MORE CLOUDS AND THUNDERSTORMS TOWARDS MID JUNE. THIS IS NEW FROM PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS AND NOT FULLY READY TO JUMP ON THIS BANDWAGON. DID LOWER TEMPERATURES A BIT AT THE VERY END OF THE PERIOD HOWEVER, STILL WENT WITH CONTINUED ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION IN THE 8 TO 14 DAY EXTENDED GRIDS. -SUGDEN && .AVIATION... GUSTY SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN DIMINISH AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER DECOUPLES. A FEW CB'S POSSIBLE AT KHYS AND KGCK ALONG A COLD FRONT. VFR CIGS EXPECTED THROUGH THE TAF CYCLE. WINDS SHOULD BACK THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS TO THE SOUTHEAST/SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AND REMAIN AROUND 10-15 KNOTS. -SUGDEN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 66 100 67 101 / 10 10 20 0 GCK 65 97 65 100 / 20 10 20 0 EHA 64 98 65 99 / 20 10 20 10 LBL 65 99 65 101 / 20 10 20 0 HYS 63 92 63 96 / 30 20 30 10 P28 71 99 70 100 / 10 10 10 0 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FN06/36
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 404 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-042115- 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- 404 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011 /304 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING, PRIMARILY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM SYRACUSE TO SCOTT CITY AND HAYS NEAR A COLD FRONT. STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS OF 50 TO 70 MPH AND DIME TO NEAR QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. A SMALLER CHANCE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IS ALSO POSSIBLE MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM CIMARRON TO MEADE THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST LATE AFTERNOON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POTENTIALLY COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL KANSAS, HOWEVER THE MORE LIKELY AREA WOULD BE ALONG AND NORTH OF KANSAS HIGHWAY 96. STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS OF 50 TO 70 MPH ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE IS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 06
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
714 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011
KSZ074-084-040115-
MORTON-STANTON-
714 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MORTON AND SOUTHWESTERN STANTON
COUNTIES...
AT 712 PM CDT/612 PM MDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF ELKHART...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3741 10205 3750 10183 3739 10158 3700 10159
3699 10203 3700 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 233DEG 31KT 3700 10219
FINCHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
754 PM CDT FRI JUN 03 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1030 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 6 S DEERFIELD 37.89N 101.13W
06/02/2011 M58.00 MPH KEARNY KS MESONET
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JFINCHThe Dodge City radar (KDDC), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:59 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Power poles were snapped along road 35, 14 miles south of Syracuse.
Power poles were blown down at the intersection of Roads 3 and P.
Numerous tree branches were broken along with a few power poles.
A semi truck was blown over on highway 50 near mile marker 37.
A few minutes before the gust part of a roof at the airport was blown onto a few vehicles.
A brief wind gust of 60 MPH associated with a heat burst caused the temperature to rise rapidly to 91 degrees. The location was 11 miles south of Dighton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2011
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: 329344, 329347, 329343, 329345, 329346, 329349, 329352, 329359, 329357, 329355.