Drought conditions remain unchanged from March across extreme southwest Nebraska with the area continuing in D2 (Severe) to D3 (Extreme) Drought. Precipitation during the month of April was around an inch below normal at cooperative observer stations.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
Drought conditions remain unchanged from March across extreme southwest Nebraska with the area continuing in D2 (Severe) to D3 (Extreme) Drought. Precipitation during the month of April was around an inch below normal at cooperative observer stations.
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 31, 10:52 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1052 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 639 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING...WIND ADVISORY AND DUST STORM WARNINGS EARLIER AS CONDITIONS HAVE DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED THIS EVENING. HAVE UPDATED ALL PRODUCTS TO REFLECT THIS TREND. && .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 216 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A WELL DEFINED UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE PLAINS. THE BASE OF THE 500MB TROUGH HAS TRACKED ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE TRI-STATE AREA TODAY...CAUSING WINDS TO GUST UP TO 66 MPH DURING THE MORNING WITH GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH STILL OCCURRING DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. WIDESPREAD BLOWING DUST ALSO DEVELOPED WITH THE HIGH WINDS THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON OVER THE EASTERN PART OF THE AREA WITH VISIBILITIES DROPPING TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. IN ADDITION THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE REPORTS OF ISOLATED AREAS OVER THE WEST HALF OF THE AREA WHERE VISIBILITIES ARE DOWN TO ZERO NEAR TILLED FIELDS. MODELS WERE SUGGESTING THE WINDS WOULD BEGIN TO DECLINE BY NOW BUT CONTINUE TO HAVE SPORADIC REPORTS OF GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW LIFTS NORTHEAST. AS A RESULT WILL KEEP THE CURRENT HAZARDS GOING FOR NOW UNTIL SEE EVIDENCE THAT WINDS ARE ON THE DECLINE. OVERALL TREND HAS THE WINDS DECLINING DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON FROM WEST TO EAST AS THE STRONGER MID AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS MOVE EAST OF THE AREA. FOR THIS EVENING ANTICIPATE THE GUSTY WINDS TO LINGER OVER THE FAR EASTERN PART OF THE AREA AS THE STRONGER WINDS CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST OUT OF THE AREA. BEHIND THE EXITING UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM A SHORT WAVE RIDGE AND SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVE OVER THE AREA CAUSING THE WINDS TO BECOME LIGHT. DUE TO A COOLER AIR MASS IN PLACE LOWS WILL BE MUCH COOLER THAN LAST NIGHT. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 202 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 TUESDAY-THURSDAY...FAIRLY ACTIVE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA AS FLOW ALOFT BECOMES SOUTHWESTERLY AS SHORT WAVE TROUGH DIVES INTO THE FOUR CORNERS AREA BEFORE EJECTING INTO CWA ON THURSDAY. PRECIPITATION CHANCES LOOK MINIMAL THROUGH THE AFTERNOON WEDNESDAY AS A WEAK AXIS OF INSTABILITY DEVELOPS ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO TOMORROW AND TO A LESSER EXTENT ON WEDNESDAY. POSITION OF INSTABILITY AXIS AND EXPECTED STORM MOTIONS DO NOT REALLY PROVIDE A LARGE WINDOW FOR THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL WITH ONLY PORTIONS OF YUMA COUNTY HAVING A SMALL WINDOW FOR AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. AS LEE SIDE TROUGH DEVELOPS IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING SHORTWAVE TROUGH...NEAR TERM MODELS COMING INTO GOOD AGREEMENT THAT STRONG LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ADVECTION WILL TAKE PLACE OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR EITHER LOW STRATUS OR FOG TO AREA EAST OF KANSAS/COLORADO STATE LINE. A FEW MODELS GENERATING PERIOD OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION AS WELL...BUT GIVEN VERTICAL FORCING PROFILE DRIZZLE APPEARS UNLIKELY AND DO NOT PUT MUCH WEIGHT ON THOSE QPF FORECASTS ATTM. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON TUESDAY WHICH WILL BRING A FIRE WX CONCERN. HOWEVER LATEST FORECAST DATA KEEPS BULK OF THE AREA ABOVE RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS. BOTH THE NAM AND GFS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT WITH WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY SYSTEM WITH LAST 3 RUNS OF THE GFS FOCUSING PRECIPITATION ON THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE CWA AND INDICATING TEMPERATURES COOLING TO THE POINT WHERE ACCUMULATING SNOW WOULD BE POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS. LATEST GEMH TAKING A MORE OPEN WAVE/LOWER IMPACT APPROACH SO WILL LEAN TOWARDS THE ENSEMBLES AT THIS POINT AS UNCERTAINTY REMAINS VERY HIGH. CONFIDENCE IN PRECIPITATION IN SOME FORM HIGH ENOUGH TO INCREASE CHANCES INTO THE 60-70 PERCENT RANGE WITH GEFS MEAN FORECAST AMOUNTS SUPPORTING PRECIPITATION VALUES AROUND 0.3 IN THIS AREA. WHILE NOT CERTAIN ABOUT TEMPERATURE PROFILES...AM LEANING TOWARDS COLDER MODELS AT THIS POINT. AS A RESULT....POTENTIAL FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW EXISTS OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. A FEW AREAS...PRIMARILY NEAR THE SHARED KS/CO/NE BORDER MAY SEE ACCUMULATIONS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES. IN THE EXTENDED (THURSDAY NIGHT-MONDAY)...UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIODS WITH MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTHWEST US TROUGH AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND BEFORE MODELS DIVERGE THROUGH THE START OF THE WEEK. WHILE THE DETAILS VARY...EITHER SOLUTION WILL BRING A FEW CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION (ALTHOUGH ECMWF BRINGS A MUCH MORE WIDESPREAD SCENARIO). WITH HIGH IMPACT SHORT TERM CONCERNS...SAW LITTLE REASON TO DEVIATE FROM GIVEN CONSENSUS FIELDS. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 1052 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. CIRRUS SHOULD CONTINUE STREAMING OVER THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST PERIOD. A SURFACE HIGH...PRESENTLY CENTERED OVER THE REGION...WILL LEAD TO LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. AS THE HIGH MOVES EAST AND A LOW DEVELOPS TO THE WEST...SOUTH WINDS WILL RETURN. SOUTH WINDS BECOME GUSTY LATE IN THE MORNING AND WEAKEN IN THE EVENING. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. CO...NONE. NE...NONE. && UPDATE...RRH SHORT TERM...JTL LONG TERM...JRM AVIATION...RRH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 636 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-011345- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 636 PM MDT MON MAR 31 2014 /736 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE TRI STATE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION. WHILE UNCERTAINTY REMAINS HIGH FOR THIS STORMS PATH...ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE COLORADO...NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BORDER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Hitchcock County remained in D2 (Severe) Drought during the month of April.
Red Willow County remained in D3 (Extreme) Drought during the month of April.
Dundy County remained in D2 (Severe) Drought during the month of April.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, April 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: 514265, 514266, 514264.