A thunderstorm producing heavy rainfall caused a local area of flash flooding in and around Meade.
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A thunderstorm producing heavy rainfall caused a local area of flash flooding in and around Meade.
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 Jun 14, 5:02 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 602 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .SHORT TERM...(THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 1200 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 A RAINY SHORT TERM PERIOD. CURRENTLY WATCHING LIGHT RAIN MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TO THE NORTH. THERE IS SOME QUESTION IF THIS SLOWLY MOVING PRECIP WILL AFFECT INSTABILITY LATER WITH ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE MESOSCALE MODELS DO SUGGEST MORE ACTIVITY THIS EVENING AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT AS THE LARGE LOW THAT IS CURRENTLY OVER US SLOWLY MOVES NORTH. THE KDDC PWAT THIS MORNING WAS 1.23", SO ANY OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. THE 4 KM IS QUITE AGGRESSIVE WITH QPF AMOUNTS FOR THE 1/3RD OF FORECAST AREA. WILL NOT GO A QUITE AS HIGH IN THE QPF GRIDS. THE BOTTOM LINE, COULD SEE AN INCH OR SO ACROSS SOUTH- CENTRAL KANSAS, HALF TO THREE QUARTERS ACROSS THE CENTRAL ZONES, AND FEW TENTHS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST ZONES. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED GIVEN THE OVERALL LIMITED INSTABILITY AND PARTICULARLY THE WEAK BULK SHEAR. ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS IS POSSIBLE TOMORROW WITH THE POPS GRADUALLY TAPERING FROM THE NORTHWEST TO THE SOUTHEAST. AGAIN, SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS STANDS TO SEE THE MOST PRECIPITATION ACCUMULATION AS THIS AREA IS IN THE BETTER LIFT AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 60S WITH HIGHS TOMORROW AROUND 80. .LONG TERM...(MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY) ISSUED AT 310 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 THE MAIN CHANGE IN THE FORECAST WAS TO REDUCE POPS FOR MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...AS THERE IS INCREASED CONFIDENCE IN A DRY SCENARIO WITH SHORTWAVE RIDGING MOVING IN, ONCE THE CURRENT MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST. WESTERN KANSAS WILL BE WITHIN THE 500-700MB SHORTWAVE RIDGE AXIS MONDAY NIGHT AND INTO TUESDAY, ALONG WITH SOME LOWER RELATIVE HUMIDITY, THUS THE PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION WILL BE QUITE LOW. THE NAM12 MODEL, HOWEVER, SHOWS A LINE OF CONVECTION DEVELOPING MONDAY NIGHT ALONG SOME PHANTOM SURFACE CONVERGENCE AXIS NORTHWEST OF THE PASSING SHORTWAVE TROUGH...WHICH NONE OF THE GLOBAL MODELS SUGGEST. THIS MODEL IS, THUS, DISCOUNTED FOR THE OFFICIAL FORECAST. A MINOR SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL LIKELY INITIATE A MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM (MCS) LATE TUESDAY, WHICH WOULD THEN ROLL EAST-SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE LATE NIGHT HOURS...PERHAPS REACHING THE I-70 CORRIDOR BEFORE DYING OUT EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. WE WILL CARRY SOME SMALL 20 POPS UP ALONG I-70 FOR THIS OUTSIDE POSSIBILITY. A WEAK SURFACE FRONT WILL PUSH INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS LATE IN THE DAY WEDNESDAY (PERHAPS ENHANCED A BIT BY THE AFOREMENTIONED MCS), WHICH WILL PROBABLY SPARK SOME LATE DAY SURFACE-BASED STORMS AFFECTING MAINLY OUR NORTHWEST ZONES (FAR WEST- CENTRAL KANSAS), SO WE WILL HAVE SOME LATE-DAY 20 POPS IN FOR THAT POSSIBILITY. THE SEVERE WX RISK LOOKS QUITE LOW WITH WEST-NORTHWEST MID-UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WINDS ONLY AROUND 15 TO 20 KNOTS OR SO THIS FAR SOUTH. WE SHOULD HAVE PLENTY OF MOISTURE AROUND WITH BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF SHOWING LOWER TO MID 60S DEWPOINTS AS FAR WEST AS THE HIGHWAY 83 CORRIDOR. THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST OF THE DECENT PRECIPITATION CHANCES UNTIL PERHAPS NEXT WEEKEND...AS BROAD RIDGING DEVELOPS ACROSS THE PLAINS AND A LARGE, HOT AIRMASS EXPANDING ACROSS THE ROCKIES AND WESTERN PLAINS. BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WE SHOULD SEE HIGHS BACK WELL INTO THE 90S WITH POSSIBLY SOME 95 TO 97F READINGS ACROSS PARTS OF FAR WESTERN KANSAS. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z MONDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 600 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS TONIGHT, POTENTIALLY AFFECTING KDDC AND KHYS WITH MVFR CIGS THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE, VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL AT ALL TAF SITES THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. A SMALL AND WEAK AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL SHIFT SLOWLY EAST ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS TONIGHT RESULTING IN LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL THEN PUSH SOUTHWARD ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS EARLY MONDAY MORNING TURNING WINDS NORTHEASTERLY 10 TO 15KT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DDC 65 80 62 82 / 60 60 20 10 GCK 63 79 62 82 / 40 40 10 10 EHA 61 80 63 83 / 60 30 20 10 LBL 64 80 63 83 / 60 40 20 10 HYS 65 79 62 80 / 50 40 10 10 P28 67 81 65 81 / 70 70 60 30 && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...SUGDEN LONG TERM...UMSCHEID AVIATION...JJOHNSON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 510 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-151000- 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- 510 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND PARTS OF WESTERN KANSAS THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. A BETTER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE THREAT FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS IF THUNDERSTORMS TEND TO TRAIN OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE WILL BE AT LEAST A SMALL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEK. BETTER CHANCES FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ON WEDNESDAY EVENING AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY EVENING WITH THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AT LEAST QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:10 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall in a short period caused flooding of streets in Meade and surrounding ditches and highways.
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