During the morning a strong thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in the rural part of northwest Kit Carson county.
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During the morning a strong thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in the rural part of northwest Kit Carson county.
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 Apr 6, 5:29 AM MST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 629 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 620 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 INCREASED WINDS FOR TODAY BASED ON LATEST DATA. NOTICED THE NEAR TERM HOURLY MODELS HAD BEEN SHOWING SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 25KTS ACROSS THE AREA A FEW HOURS AGO...BUT NOW ARE AROUND 20 KTS. NOT SURE WHY THAT HAPPENED SINCE A RUC SOUNDING STILL SHOWS WINDS AROUND 25 KTS MIXING DOWN. GUSTS OF 35-40 MPH WILL OCCUR BEGINNING BY LATE MORNING AND LASTING INTO MID AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECLINE DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE AFTERNOON. AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY...DO NOT PLAN ON ISSUING A FIRE WEATHER HIGHLIGHT AT THIS TIME FOR THE AFTERNOON DUE TO THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY REMAINING ABOVE 15 PERCENT. HOWEVER WIND GUSTS OF 35-40 MPH WITH THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AROUND 20 PERCENT WILL CAUSE ANY FIRES TO QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF CONTROL. PART OF CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO DOES MEET CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CRITERIA...HOWEVER IT IS ONLY HALF OF THE COUNTY. HAVE MENTIONED THE RISK OF FIRE GROWTH FOR THE ENTIRE AREA IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST THIS MORNING TO COMMUNICATE THE RISK OF RAPID FIRE GROWTH. && .SHORT TERM...(TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 225 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 NORTHWEST FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. SUBSIDENCE WILL LIMIT ANY POPS OTHER THAN NIL POPS. THE WEATHER WILL BE DRY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. WINDS WILL BECOME BREEZY TO WINDY IN THE EASTERN FA THIS MORNING AND THEN DECREASE IN THE AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY STAYS WELL ABOVE CRITICAL VALUES ACROSS MOST OF THE FA. CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO BECOMES MARGINAL IN THE LATER 3 HOURS OF THE AFTERNOON BUT WIND SPEEDS WILL BE DECREASING AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLING OFF. CONFIDENCE IS NOT THERE TO ISSUE A FIRE HIGHLIGHT FOR ONE COUNTY. MAX TEMPERATURES SHOULD REACH THE MID AND UPPER 60S TODAY AND THURSDAY WITH NEAR 70 ON FRIDAY. MIN TEMPERATURES SHOULD RANGE FROM 35 TO 40. .LONG TERM...(SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 225 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 THE PERIOD WILL START OUT WITH AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE TRI- STATE AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. DURING THIS TIME VERY WARM HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA. HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR SUNDAY MAY NOT BE HIGH ENOUGH GIVEN THE BREEZY SOUTHWEST WIND IN THE 850- 925MB LAYER. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE EASTERN 1/3 OF THE AREA ENDED UP WARMING INTO THE LOW 80S. SUNDAY NIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. DESPITE A SUGGESTION OF THE TROUGH GOING FURTHER SOUTH WITH THE MODEL DATA LAST NIGHT...MODELS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT WITH THE TROUGH TRACKING ACROSS THE AREA...ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILL DISAGREEMENT AS TO WHAT DIRECTION THE TROUGH WILL COME FROM BE IT THE WEST OR NORTHWEST. THE ENTIRE AREA LOOKS TO HAVE A GOOD SHOT AT RECEIVING RAINFALL WITH THIS TROUGH PASSAGE DUE TO WIDE SPREAD LIFT AND MOISTURE MOVING OVERHEAD MONDAY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. AM BEGINNING TO HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE THE AREA WILL ACTUALLY RECEIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS TROUGH. HOWEVER DUE TO THE FAIRLY SMALL SCALE NATURE OF THE TROUGH...ANY SHIFT OF THE MUCH LARGER CLOSED LOW OVER SOUTHWEST CANADA WOULD CAUSE THE TROUGH TO MOVE MORE NORTH OR SOUTH. THIS WOULD CAUSE PARTS OF THE AREA TO MISS OUT ON THE RAINFALL WITH THE TROUGH SINCE THE MOISTURE ACCOMPANYING THE TROUGH IS FAIRLY NARROW...BEING FLANKED BY MUCH DRIER AIR TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH. THE RAINFALL WILL END MONDAY NIGHT AS THE TROUGH MOVES EAST OF THE AREA WITH DRIER AIR MOVING IN OVER THE AREA BEHIND IT. HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR THE PERIOD WILL BE WARMEST THIS WEEKEND WITH THE RIDGE OVERHEAD. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. THE LAST FEW NIGHTS THE FRONT HAS SEEMED TO ARRIVE EARLIER WITH EACH MODEL RUN. AM WONDERING IF HIGHS IN THE MID 50S WILL BE TOO WARM GIVEN THE COLD AIR ADVECTION MOVING IN BEHIND THE FRONT DURING THE MORNING. HOWEVER THE VAST MAJORITY OF MODEL DATA SUPPORTS MID 50S FOR HIGHS MONDAY. ONLY A COUPLE MODELS INDICATE UPPER 40S FOR HIGHS...WHICH MAY END UP BEING MORE REASONABLE. HIGHS WILL BE A FEW DEGREES WARMER TUESDAY AS A SHORT WAVE RIDGE MOVES THROUGH AHEAD OF THE NEXT TROUGH. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z THURSDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 435 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL AT KGLD AND KMCK TODAY AND TONIGHT. NORTHWEST WIND WILL INCREASE THIS MORNING AND THEN DECREASE AROUND SUNSET. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. CO...NONE. NE...NONE. && UPDATE...JTL SHORT TERM...FS LONG TERM...JTL AVIATION...FS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 253 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-070900- YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 253 AM MDT WED APR 6 2016 /353 AM CDT WED APR 6 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... FIRE DANGER WILL BE ELEVATED THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF A LINE FROM KIT CARSON TO CHEYENNE WELLS IN SOUTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:33 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
First few hailstones were flat in appearance. Close to 80% of the ground was covered with hail ranging from pea size to nickel size.
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