Strong winds behind a cold front during the early evening brought lowered visibility in blowing dust.
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Strong winds behind a cold front during the early evening brought lowered visibility in blowing dust.
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 Jan 26, 5:10 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 510 PM CST Sun Jan 26 2014 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Monday) ISSUED AT 200 PM CST SUN JAN 26 2014 The forecast for the overnight presents a mixed bag of confidence with respect to both wind speeds and precipitation chances. The next cold front will be drive through southwest Kansas this evening, ushering drier and colder air. The magnitude of the winds could be marginally near the wind advisory criteria for much of the forecast area, based on WRF 0-1 KM windspeeds and lapse rates, and slightly stronger GFS MOS and LAMP maximum output of around 26-30 knots sustained. These stronger and gusty winds should primarily be post frontal for just a few hours before tapering through 12 UTC Monday. The wind advisory was extended spatially farther west to around highway 83 for the same time duration. Given the cold air and relative humidity indicated by the forecast soundings, it would be reasonable to expect flurries as well behind the boundary overnight. The WRF (ARW/NMM) models all develop light QPF and very light snow accumulations. It is possible for some areas, especially locations north and west of Dodge City to receive a dusting of snow given the broken sloping frontogenesis through a sufficiently saturated atmospheric column well in the preferred dendritic zone. As the cold air settles in overnight with surface high pressure moving equatorward, much colder highs are expected on Monday afternoon with continued light to breezy northerly and weakening cold advection through early evening. .LONG TERM...(Monday night through Sunday) ISSUED AT 200 PM CST SUN JAN 26 2014 Another shortwave trough moves from the Northern High Plains across the Central Plains on Tuesday with a chance for light snow. The best chances for some light accumulations look to be from near Garden City to Meade and west with a dusting to around 1/2 inch. Some flurries are also possible across the rest of southwest and south central Kansas into the afternoon with some minor lift associated with the upper level wave. The new NAM model really lowers the chances for any accumulating snow at all, but will hedge toward the GFS model that keeps some light snow in the area. The GFS looks better with some upward lift and higher relative humidities for some light snow. Overnight lows on Monday night will be only in single digits to teens with light northeast winds becoming southwest by morning. Highs for Tuesday will be around 30 with light southwest winds shifting to the northwest with the upper trough. A pattern change then looks to be in the forecast into next Weekend with the upper flow transitioning from the cold north to northwest flow aloft to more of a zonal flow pattern. Some southern branch waves then begin to break across the United States towards the Weekend. Wednesday looks to be the warmest, ahead of the next cold front on Thursday, with highs from the upper 40s to lower 50s and windy south to southwest winds of 20 to 30 mph. Highs then fall back into the 40s for Friday and Saturday, and into the 30s on Sunday with another cold front. Overnight lows warm from teens on Wednesday night and into the 20s into the Weekend. && .AVIATION...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Monday evening) ISSUED AT 510 PM CST SUN JAN 26 2014 VFR conditions will prevail at all TAF sites through late this evening. However, low level stratus will develop behind a cold front as it pushes southward across central and western Kansas tonight. MVFR cigs may be possible in the vicinity of all TAF sites generally after 06Z. A few flurries, and even a brief show shower, will be possible near KHYS late this evening. As for winds, a strong cold front will push southward across western Kansas this evening turning winds northerly 25 to 35kt and gusty overnight. The winds will gradually subside below 20kt toward sunrise as surface high pressure in the Northern Plains sinks south into Kansas. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 12 25 10 31 / 20 10 30 20 GCK 12 25 9 31 / 20 10 30 20 EHA 13 26 12 30 / 20 20 30 20 LBL 14 26 12 31 / 20 10 30 20 HYS 8 24 5 27 / 20 0 10 10 P28 15 26 10 32 / 10 0 20 10 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY until 4 AM CST Monday FOR KSZ030-031-043>046- 063>066-076>081-086>090. && SHORT TERM...Russell LONG TERM...Kruse AVIATION...JJohnson
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 415 PM CST SUN JAN 26 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-271045- 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- 415 PM CST SUN JAN 26 2014 /315 PM MST SUN JAN 26 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 FROM 7 PM UNTIL 4 AM TONIGHT. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST WEATHER MESSAGE FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR LIGHT SNOW ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WEST OF HIGHWAY 83. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC BURGERT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The high wind was reported at the Hays airport.
The wind gust of 62 MPH was reported on the backup wind equipment at the National Weather Service office.
The wind gust was measured at the Garden City airport.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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