A cold front moved into the western parts of the area during the evening. Moisture pooling ahead of the front combined with the lift to produce the storms.
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A cold front moved into the western parts of the area during the evening. Moisture pooling ahead of the front combined with the lift to produce the storms.
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 Jul 25, 4:11 PM MST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 611 PM CDT Fri Jul 25 2014 ...Updated Aviation Section... .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Saturday) ISSUED AT 109 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 2014 I will change very little to this current forecast, since the ongoing forecast seems on track and in agreement with the short term, high definition models. We have been heating up faster than yesterday, and I see no reason why we won't reach the 100 to 104 degree range today. Dew points in our eastern tier of counties are in the upper 60s, which will combine with the 103F or so surface temperatures to give heat indices in the 105F range. Thus, the NPW Heat Advisory will continue through 8 PM CDT this evening. All of the counties may not reach the 105F Heat Advisory criteria, but they will come close. There is a lee side trough moving near the Colorado border, and if any storms do form this evening, it should be near the trough axis. Later, the trough could slide east into our central CWA, and isolated storms could fire there towards midnight. As for low temperatures, we should be just a little cooler than this morning, and min temps are forecast to be in the upper 60s near Syracuse, and range to the mid 70s in Coldwater and Medicine Lodge. I expect winds will not be as brisk as they were last night, either. As for Saturday, we will be under the dome of a hot, upper high pressure dome centered off to our southwest. A surface trough will again form in Colorado during Saturday afternoon, and then move into western Kansas during the evening. So, at this time, I do not expect any thunderstorms during Saturday, but just after sundown. Maximum temps Saturday will reach the 99 to 103F degree range, but dew points will be slightly lower than today. Thus, a heat advisory does not seem imminent Saturday. Winds will vary from south at 10 to 20 mph in the Medicine Lodge area to the east across our northern 2/3rd of the forecast area. .LONG TERM...(Saturday night through Friday) ISSUED AT 420 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 2014 Saturday Night/Sunday: Isolated convection be possible Saturday night along a zone of enhanced low level frontogenesis. The global models (EC/GFS) are in fair agreement with storms developing as is with the mesoscale models (WRF, less 4 km NAM). Broad brushed slight pops as no real one area is preferred over another. An inverted-v thermo profile is expected, so storms could produce microbursts. Shear is on the weak side, so winds and lightning should be the main threats. Brief heavy rainfall is also a lower end threat. Storms will be diurnally driven and activity should quickly end by dusk. Overnight minimums expected to be in the 70s. For Sunday, we will be behind the front in a post-frontal upslope regime. Will have to watch out for orographic convection forming over the Colorado terrain and propagating east Sunday night across the western zones. Have the highest pops for far southwest Kansas as well as lower maximums for Sunday. Highs in the 80s to low 90s. Next week: Those who like cooler temperatures will be happy to know that there is still the signal for cooler conditions next week. There is some similar synoptic hints of this upcoming cooler spell as to the last cooler temperature outbreak we saw earlier - however, the overall magnitude should be somewhat tapered compared to the previous event. The most interesting weather looks to be Monday and particularly Tuesday. Northwesterly flow aloft and low level upslope flow all point to the synoptic/mesoscale pattern that of which is conducive to MCS formation. The best area for the most precipitation through next week will be across far southwest Kansas - exactly where they need it - as they are experiencing the most severe drought conditions. I pretty much left the allblend temps alone, but there probably is a good chance that these temps will be too warm. The EC suggests some areas that remain under precip and clouds will not break out of the 60s. Something to watch. Still for the end of July, there isn't much room to complain even if we are only in the 70s for highs midweek. Next Wednesday looks to the coolest during my period. Way out by the end of the extended pd, the EC and particularly the GFS indicate amplification and possible slight retrogression of a downstream trof/low. The associated mid level cold pool could result in more shower/iso storms for the end of next week, but confidence is extremely low. Some modification of allblend pops were done after WFO coordination. && .AVIATION...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Saturday evening) ISSUED AT 604 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 2014 VFR conditions will prevail through Saturday. Upper level high pressure will persist from New Mexico into Oklahoma, while a deep upper level trough moves from southern Saskatchewan into southeast Manitoba by Saturday evening. At the surface, a weak trough from north central Kansas into eastern Colorado will move little tonight. Widely scattered evening thunderstorms are possible along the trough axis. Other thunderstorms in eastern Colorado will propagate into western Kansas after 9 PM but should gradually weaken to only scattered showers by midnight. Scattered to broken clouds with bases aoa 200 can be expected to spread across western Kansas this evening. Local ceilings near 080 will occur as weakening thunderstorms approach GCK after 03Z, and scattered clouds near 080 with ceilings aoa 200 can be expected as the weakening area of showers moves east through 12z. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 72 101 71 90 / 20 10 20 10 GCK 69 100 70 89 / 20 20 20 20 EHA 70 101 70 89 / 30 10 20 30 LBL 72 103 72 91 / 20 10 20 30 HYS 72 100 71 90 / 20 10 20 10 P28 75 103 74 94 / 10 10 10 10 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY until 8 PM CDT this evening FOR KSZ031-046-065-066- 081-090. && SHORT TERM...Burke LONG TERM...Sugden AVIATION...Ruthi
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 724 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-270030- 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- 724 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 2014 /624 PM MDT FRI JUL 25 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS EVENING MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 83. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE MICROBURSTS WITH LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS AND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LIGHTING, HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER SUNDAY AND IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF KANSAS MONDAY. MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TUESDAY INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL DECREASE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
742 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 2014
KSZ061-260130-
HAMILTON-
642 PM MDT FRI JUL 25 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HAMILTON COUNTY...
AT 640 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COOLIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3811 10205 3827 10180 3827 10165 3808 10156
3776 10203 3781 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0042Z 231DEG 14KT 3802 10200
01The Goodland radar (KGLD), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:49 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Power lines were blown down and there was some unspecified structural damage reported.
Seven power poles were blown down by the high wind.
Four power poles were blown down by the high wind.
Trees were uprooted and windows were blown out of a house.
Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2014
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: 538479, 538480, 538481, 538482, 538478, 538483.