As a cold pool aloft moved across the central plains it helped to destabilize the atmosphere enough that thunderstorms developed along a dry line.
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As a cold pool aloft moved across the central plains it helped to destabilize the atmosphere enough that thunderstorms developed along a dry line.
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 May 7, 2:49 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 349 PM CDT Wed May 7 2014 ...UPDATED SHORT TERM AND FIRE WEATHER SECTIONS... .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Thursday) ISSUED AT 347 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2014 Forecast issues revolve around current wind speeds through late afternoon, the low chances for convection for this evening and a frontal boundary sweeping the area for Thursday. Temperature trends are in very good shape as readings continue warming through the 90s this afternoon. The stronger surface winds were slow to evolve across the area and the wind advisory may not verify until late in the afternoon when full mixing potential is realized. Drier air should continue to work eastward through the late afternoon. The model MUCAPE fields and precipitation/convective fields suggest potential for high based showers or thunderstorms in vicinity of a dryline... or more likely a retreating dryline as a boundary layer moisture surge develops northward across south central Kansas. Another chance for storms exists across the far eastern sections especially from around Stafford to Coldwater eastward as the upper wave and it's cold pool moves into the central high plains. A Pacific cold front will swing through the area on Thursday, the leading edge of which should move though our eastern counties early Thursday scouring out the higher dew point air with it. Weak cold advection will help limit high on Thursday to the 70s and low 80s with a limited threat of approaching wind advisory criteria as mixing develops in the afternoon. .LONG TERM...(Thursday night through Wednesday) ISSUED AT 257 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2014 The start of the extended period will see a shortwave trough moving out over the central High Plains Thursday evening. A cold front will be moving through southwest Kansas and should be moving south out of southwest Kansas during the evening hours. A dryline will be in the vicinity of south central Kansas before the front sweeps it east of the region later in the evening. There could be a few thunderstorms in the Pratt/Medicine Lodge areas during the early evening hours. A few high based showers could also move out of southeast Colorado into far southwest Kansas during the early evening hours. Will carry some 15-20 percent pops but am not too excited about any precipitation reaching the ground over far southwest Kansas given the dry lower levels indicated in the model soundings. Friday and Saturday should be dry and mild as weak mid level zonal flow dominates the weather picture. The models continue to struggle with how the next upper level shortwave evolves as it digs into the western states on Saturday and heads toward the central part of the country early next week. The GFS continues to be the most progressive with this wave and moves it out over the High Plains Sunday night and Monday. The 12z run is now showing the wave somewhat stronger and deeper and its ensemble members are following that trend. The GEM and ECMWF continue to show a stronger wave digging into the west and closing off over the Four Corners region before moving out over the Plains on Monday and Tuesday. At this time it still does not look like there will be widespread precipitation across southwest Kansas but the best chances will be around Sunday and Monday. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Thursday afternoon) ISSUED AT 118 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2014 Southwest surface winds are expected to increase as mixing deepens through the late afternoon reaching 24-26 knots from Liberal through Garden city and near Hay by late day. A retreating dryline by early evening could become the focus for isolated high based thunderstorms, but chances are small. A pacific cold front will move through the are after 12 UTC Thursday turning winds westerly to northwesterly. VFR category conditions are expected given the very dry airmass in place. && .FIRE WEATHER... ISSUED AT 347 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2014 Critical fire weather conditions have developed across a large portion of the are this afternoon and are expected to continue through early evening when winds decouple from the loss of direct surface heating. Cooler temperatures as well as weaker surface winds expected on Thursday should preclude red flag conditions across the area. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 56 76 44 75 / 10 10 10 0 GCK 52 72 42 75 / 10 10 10 0 EHA 44 74 43 78 / 10 10 10 0 LBL 54 77 44 77 / 10 10 10 0 HYS 60 72 42 73 / 30 10 20 10 P28 62 83 49 76 / 20 20 20 10 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING until 10 PM CDT /9 PM MDT/ this evening FOR KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090. WIND ADVISORY until 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ this evening FOR KSZ030- 031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090. && SHORT TERM...Russell LONG TERM...Gerard AVIATION...33 FIRE WEATHER...Russell
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 407 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-081000- 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- 407 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2014 /307 AM MDT WED MAY 7 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A RED FLAG WARNING AND A WIND ADVISORY ARE IN EFFECT TODAY WITH EXTREMELY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STRONG WINDS EXPECTED. PLEASE SEE THE CURRENT WARNING AND ADVISORY MESSAGES FOR MORE DETAILS. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG A DRYLINE LATER THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL FROM QUARTER TO PING PONG SIZE, LIGHTNING, AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY EAST OF LINE FROM LARNED TO ASHLAND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS, WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL, LIGHTNING, AND DAMAGING WIND MAINLY IN THE MEDICINE LODGE AREA ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY, HOWEVER IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE SEVERITY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING GENERALLY EAST OF A LARNED TO ASHLAND LINE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 06
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:45 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The high wind was measured at the Meade airport. A building was damaged 1/4 mile east of airport and a semi was overturned on highway 54 about 4 miles west of teh airport.
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