Strong winds were observed during the evening hours.
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The episode as NWS DDC wrote it up.
Strong winds were observed during the evening hours.
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, 3:12 PM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 312 PM CST MON JAN 26 2015 ...LONG TERM... .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 119 PM CST MON JAN 26 2015 DOWNSLOPE FLOW WILL IMPROVE OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AXIS LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES MOVES ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ROCKIES. THE NAM, GFS, AND ECMWF WERE ALL IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH 850MB TEMPERATURES FROM 00Z TUESDAY TO 00Z WEDNESDAY WARMING 3 TO 7C DESPITE A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS BY LATE DAY. AT THIS TIME GIVEN THAT THE WARMER AIR IN THE 900 TO 850MB LAYER LATE TUESDAY WILL BE LOCATED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL KANSAS AND BASED ON THIS 850MB WARMUP EXPECTED ON TUESDAY WILL STAY CLOSE TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST FOR HIGHS ON TUESDAY WHICH WAS NEAR THE LATEST WARMER THAN THE WARMER GUIDANCE. WIND SPEEDS ON TUESDAY WILL BE AT LEAST AS STRONG THAN WHAT THEY WERE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN KANSAS GIVEN THE DEVELOPING TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE ACROSS FAR EASTERN COLORADO, AND 0-1KM MEAN MIXED LAYER WINDS. BASED ON THE UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES LIKELY TUESDAY AFTERNOON ALONG WITH THE LOCATION OF THE SURFACE LEE TROUGH LATE DAY NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER AND AFTERNOON DEWPOINTS FALLING BACK INTO THE MID 20S THERE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE AN ELEVATED THREAT FOR WILDFIRES, MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 283. THE LOWEST AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE NEAR AND WEST OF GARDEN CITY, HOWEVER WIND SPEEDS IN THIS AREA ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHTER TUESDAY AFTERNOON BASED ON THE LOCATION OF THE SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 312 PM CST MON JAN 26 2015 BREEZY COLD ADVECTION WILL BE THE MAIN SENSIBLE WEATHER INFLUENCE FOR WEDNESDAY EVENING, FOLLOWING A COLD FRONT THAT WILL LIKELY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA SOMETIME DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY BASED ON THE ECMWF AND GFS. THE TIMING OF THE FRONT ON WEDNESDAY COULD HAVE MAJOR IMPACTS ON HOW HIGH TEMPERATURES RISE DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE INITIAL NORTHWESTERLY WINDS MAY PROVIDE AS MUCH DOWNSLOPE WARMING AS TO OFFSET ANY STRONG COOLING TENDENCY DURING THEY DAY, AS THE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON TEMPERATURES IN EXCESS OF THE MID 60S'S IN MOST CASES, INCLUDING THE CONSENSUS OF MOS. HOWEVER, A PRONOUNCED COOL DOWN WILL IMMEDIATELY BE FELT BY THURSDAY WHERE DAYTIME MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES APPEAR STILL AROUND A STANDARD DEVIATION ABOVE NORMAL FOR LATE JANUARY. THE MODELS ALSO SHOW A STRONG WAVE UNDERCUTTING THE RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ROCKIES, ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF A SOUTHERN STREAM JET, DRIVING THE COLD FRONT THROUGH THE SOUTHERN STATES. ONCE THIS JET EXIST THE REGION TO THE SOUTH, A BRIEF 24 HOUR PERIOD OF MID LEVEL RIDGING WILL LIKELY MAINTAIN ENOUGH SUBSIDENCE FOR DRY, PERHAPS PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS BEFORE THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER MAKER ARRIVES. MID LEVEL QG FRONTOGENESIS PRECEDED BY ISENTROPIC LIFT IN ADVANCE OF ANOTHER SURFACE FRONT IS LIKELY BY LATE FRIDAY/FRIDAYS EVENING. AS THE COLUMN SLOWLY SATURATES, THE INITIAL PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE IN THE FORM OF RAIN, AND TURN TO SNOW AT SOME POINT IN THE TYPICAL DIURNAL CYCLE. LITTLE MORE DETAILS CAN BE GLEANED AT THIS POINT GIVEN THIS IS A DAY 6 SYSTEM, HOWEVER ENOUGH CONFIDENCE IN THE MODEL CONSISTENCY HAS BEEN GAINED TO INCREASE POPS FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THE LATTER HALF OF THE FORECAST CONTINUES THE COOLING TREND, WITH HIGH POSSIBLY AS COLD AS BELOW FREEZING AGAIN BY THE BACK PART OF THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z TUESDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 1114 AM CST MON JAN 26 2015 NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DECREASE TO 10 KNOTS OR LESS BY SUNSET AND THEN BEGIN TO GRADUALLY BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST TOWARDS 12Z TUESDAY AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS/DEEPENS ACROSS FAR EASTERN COLORADO. THE LIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL THEN INCREASE TO NEAR 15 KNOTS BY MID DAY. VFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS BASED ON 12Z NAM BUFR SOUNDINGS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 34 73 41 69 / 0 0 0 0 GCK 33 75 39 69 / 0 0 0 0 EHA 37 74 39 67 / 0 0 0 0 LBL 33 74 40 69 / 0 0 0 0 HYS 34 73 41 67 / 0 0 0 0 P28 36 73 42 70 / 0 0 0 0 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...BURGERT LONG TERM...RUSSELL AVIATION...BURGERT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 242 PM CST MON JAN 26 2015 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-271000- 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- 242 PM CST MON JAN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HAZARDS WEATHER RISK... TUESDAY... ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK. WEDNESDAY... LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK. THURSDAY... NO HAZARDS. FRIDAY... LIMITED SNOW RISK. SATURDAY... LIMITED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. LIMITED SNOW RISK. SUNDAY... LIMITED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/?N=HWO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded at the Hays airport.
A wind gust of 62 MPH was recorded at the Dodge City airport.
A wind gust of 60 MPH was recorded at the Garden City airport.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, January 2015
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: 558638, 558639, 558640.