Downed power lines from gusty wind helped ignite a wildfire that moved across parts of Lane county.
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Downed power lines from gusty wind helped ignite a wildfire that moved across parts of Lane county.
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 26, 2:41 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 341 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 338 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 HAD TO EXPAND THE HEAT ADVISORY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS WITH MEDICINE LODGE ABOVE HI CRITERIA AND PRATT IS VERY CLOSE. HWO ALSO REFRESHED ON ACCOUNT OF MODIFIED HAZARD. && .SYNOPSIS... ISSUED AT 1028 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 THE 26.12Z 250 HPA MAP ANALYSIS SHOWED A TROUGH ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, AN AMPLIFIED RIDGE ACROSS THE PLAINS, AND ANOTHER TROUGH ACROSS THE NORTHEAST. A 100 KT JET STREAK WAS MOVING ACROSS THE TREASURE VALLEY OF IDAHO. VERY WEAK JET LEVELS WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WERE OBSERVED ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS. @ 500 HPA, A 593 DM ANTICYCLONE PREVAILED FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS. A NEGATIVELY TILTED SHORTWAVE TROUGH WAS MOVING ACROSS OREGON. ANOTHER ELONGATED TROUGH WAS NOTED ACROSS NEW ENGLAND. MID LEVEL MOISTURE ADVECTION WAS OBSERVED DOWNSTREAM OF THESE TWO PRESSURE PERTURBATIONS. LARGE DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS WERE NOTED ACROSS THE DESERT SOUTHWEST AND EXTENDING EASTWARDS TO THE DEEP SOUTH EXCEPT NEAR DEBBY. AT 700/850 HPA, A WARM/DRY EML PLUME WAS STILL NOTED ACROSS THE PLAINS. 30 DEG C 850 HPA TEMPERATURES WERE MEASURED FROM KDDC NORTHWARD TO KUNR. SOME LOW TO MID LEVEL MOISTURE WAS NOTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED TROUGHS/DEBBY. AT THE SFC, A WARM FRONT WAS DRAPED ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS, TROPICAL STORM DEBBY WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE NE GULF OF MEXICO AND HIGH PRESSURE WAS DOMINATING ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST. && .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TOMORROW) ISSUED AT 100 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 TONIGHT: WILL CONTINUE THE RFW (RED FLAG WARNING) AND NPW (HEAT ADVISORY) TODAY AS IS WITH AN EXPIRATION TIME OF 02Z TONIGHT. CURRENT HEAT INDEX AT KHYS IS 104 DEG F SO IT SHOULD NOT BE LONG BEFORE CRITERIA IS MET. LIKEWISE, RH FOR THE SAME LOCATION IS AT 17 PERCENT WITH BREEZY WINDS. OTHERWISE, THE NEXT CONCERN IS OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES. HAVE GONE WITH LOWER MINS ACROSS THE WESTERN ZONES AS THE PREVIOUS NIGHT TEMPS HAVE RADIATED DOWN INTO THE MID 60S DEG F. THE ATMOSPHERE TOWARDS THE COLORADO BORDER IS REALLY DESERT IN NATURE WITH EXTREMELY HOT TEMPERATURES AND DEWPOINTS MIXING OUT INTO THE 30S & 40S DEG F. FEEL THAT SOME LOWS IN THE MID 60S DEG F ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD AS THE OVERALL SYNOPTIC/MESOSCALE PATTERN IS STAGNANT. POPS WILL REMAIN AT ZERO PERCENT AS THE DOMINATING 593 DM HIGH REMAINS IN PLACE AND WITHOUT ANY BOUNDARIES TO BE THE IMPETUS FOR PRECIPITATION NOR LIFT THROUGHOUT THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE. TOMORROW: WILL HAVE FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS FOR TREGO AND ELLIS COUNTIES AGAIN AS FUELS ARE "GO" FOR WILDFIRE GROWTH. WILL CONTINUE THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH SINCE THERE IS A LITTLE UNCERTAINTY IN WIND SPEEDS FOR TOMORROW. WILL ALSO HAVE HEAT INDEX CONCERNS AS EXTREMELY HOT AND UNPLEASANT TEMPERATURES CONTINUE. AGAIN, HAVE SIDED ON THE WARM SIDE OF MOS GUIDANCE WHICH SEEMS TO BE DOING A FAIRLY GOOD JOB VIA BOISE VERIFICATION. TEMPERATURES TOMORROW WILL BE WIDESPREAD AROUND 108 TO 110 DEG F TO POSSIBLY EVEN AS HIGH AS 113 DEG F TOWARDS KHYS. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH NORTHWEST KANSAS BY EVENING AND HAVE INSERTED SOME GHOST POPS ACROSS MY NORTHWEST COUNTIES. CONVECTIVE PROSPECTS ARE VERY SLIM WITH SUCH WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT AND THINK THE NAM IS OVERDOING QPF. MIXING OF DEWPOINTS IS A CONCERN FOR TOMORROW BUT FEEL THAT A BIGGER PORTION OF THE REGION WILL SEE HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA AS OVERALL MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WILL BE HIGHER OVER A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF SW/SC KANSAS. .LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 153 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 THE GFS AND ECMWF REMAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH A MEAN WESTERLY FLOW PERSISTING THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. A STATIONARY FRONT IS STILL FORECAST TO BE LOCATED IN/NEAR NORTHERN KANSAS WITH WARM 850-700MB TEMPERATURES LINGERING SOUTH OF THIS FRONT ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. 700MB TEMPERATURES WERE STILL FORECAST TO HOVER AROUND 15C THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY AND 850MB TEMPERATURES AT 00Z BOTH FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM THE LOW TO MID 30S. USING JUST 850MB TEMPERATURES AS A GUIDE THE AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO STAY IN THE 100-105 DEGREE RANGE. ADD A SUPER ALONG WITH A DEEPER MIXED LAYER, WHICH APPEARS LIKELY BASED ON MODEL SOUNDINGS, THEN HIGHS HOVERING AROUND 105 ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY STILL APPEARS REASONABLE. OVER THE WEEKEND PERIOD AND EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE POSSIBLE EFFECT OF SOME TROPICAL MOISTURE STREAMING NORTHWARD INTO OKLAHOMA AS AN UPPER LOW SLOWLY MOVES NORTH/NORTHEAST ACROSS TEXAS. THIS MAY LIMIT THE WARMUP SLIGHTLY...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS WEEKEND/EARLY NEXT WEEK. LATEST GUIDANCE APPEARS TO HINT AT THIS BUT CURRENTLY MAY BE A LITTLE TOO COOL SO WILL TREND TEMPERATURES UP BUT STILL KEEP THE TREND GOING. PRECIPITATION CHANCES STILL APPEAR TO BE FOCUSED NEAR THE STATIONARY FRONT LATE WEEK. NAM THIS MORNING EVEN HINTS AT A FEW ISOLATED HIGH BASED, AROUND 500MB, THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THIS BOUNDARY THAT WILL EXTEND ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS EARLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME GIVEN THE HOW DRY THE MODEL SOUNDINGS ARE IN THE LOWER LEVELS, +18C 700MB TEMPERATURES AND LOCATION OF THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPER LEVEL JET WILL CONTINUE TO FAVOR NOT MENTIONING CONVECTION BUT DID CONTINUE A 8-12% SILENT POPS FOR SEVERAL HOURS EARLY IN THE EVENING. ON THURSDAY NIGHT THE ECMWF AND GFS SUGGEST SOME UPPER LEVEL LIFT WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS NEAR THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF A 250MB JET. GIVEN THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MODELS WITH THE UPPER JET STREAK AND THE LOCATION OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY LATE DAY WILL INSERT SOME 10-14% CHANCES NEAR THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT. BY LATE FRIDAY THE GFS HAS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL JET CROSSING INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA WHILE THE ECMWF PLACES THIS UPPER LEVEL JET EXITING THE ROCKIES AND CROSSING INTO SOUTH DAKOTA. GIVEN THE DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MODELS ON WHERE THE UPPER JET WILL BE LOCATED FRIDAY NIGHT HAVE DECIDED TO STAY CLOSE TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES FRIDAY NIGHT AND OVER THE WEEKEND PERIOD. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 1200 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 AN EXTREMELY HOT (AND DRY) THERMODYNAMIC PROFILE WILL LEAD TO CLEAR SKIES AND VFR CIGS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BREEZY SOUTHWESTERLY (15-20 KT) WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BACK SOUTHERLY ~10 KT BY DUSK. A SURFACE LEE TROUGH WILL MOVE EASTWARD TOMORROW AND COMBINING WITH DIURNAL MIXING WILL LEAD TO SW 15-20 KT WINDS AGAIN. THERE IS A VERY SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TOMORROW NIGHT AS SUGGESTED BY THE 12Z NAM BUT WILL LEAVE OUT FOR NOW AS THIS LOOKS TO REMAIN NORTH AND WEST OF THE TERMINALS & AM DUBIOUS AT CONVECTIVE PROSPECTS ATTM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 71 110 71 107 / 0 0 0 0 GCK 69 111 70 107 / 0 0 0 10 EHA 66 107 70 105 / 0 0 0 10 LBL 69 110 70 106 / 0 0 0 10 HYS 74 113 73 108 / 0 10 10 10 P28 75 109 72 106 / 0 0 0 0 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR KSZ030-031-046-065- 066-079>081-089-090. HEAT ADVISORY FROM 1 PM TO 9 PM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR KSZ030-031-045- 046-064>066-078>081-088>090. RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR KSZ030-031-045- 046-064>066. FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR KSZ030-031-045-046-064>066. && UPDATE...SUGDEN SYNOPSIS...SUGDEN SHORT TERM...SUGDEN LONG TERM...BURGERT AVIATION...SUGDEN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 338 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-272045- 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- 338 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012 /238 PM MDT TUE JUN 26 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SEE WEATHER MESSAGE FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. SEE WEATHER MESSAGE FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CDT UNTIL 9 PM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. SEE WEATHER MESSAGE FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CDT UNTIL 9 PM CDT WEDNESDAY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM TREGO COUNTY TO CLARK COUNTY. SEE WEATHER MESSAGE FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC SUGDEN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Sparks from old power lines started a grass fire late in the afternoon that continued into the late night hours. Three structures burned along with a large amount of grass and brush.
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