During the late evening a thunderstorm moved through northern Sherman county. The storm produced wind gusts estimated around 60 MPH.
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During the late evening a thunderstorm moved through northern Sherman county. The storm produced wind gusts estimated around 60 MPH.
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 Aug 12, 9:25 PM MST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Goodland KS 1025 PM MDT FRI AUG 12 2016 .SHORT TERM...(This afternoon through Saturday) Issued at 1150 AM MDT Fri Aug 12 2016 A surface high pressure area centered over Alberta is ridging south into the Tri-state area at midday, keeping skies generally clear with northerly winds. Removed mention of convection later today given the broadly divergent surface flow and lack of any significant upper level features. Thinking anything that forms later today will be confined to the foothills and immediate adjacent plains of Colorado and will not make it anywhere near our western counties. Temperatures will trend a bit cooler today and Saturday with highs holding in the 80s. The next chance at thunderstorms will be Saturday afternoon over Colorado as a weak mid level trough moves toward the Central Plains in NW flow aloft. A weak surface convergent zone will set up over eastern colorado as the short wave approaches, acting as a focus for convection. .LONG TERM...(Saturday night through Friday) Issued at 141 PM MDT Fri Aug 12 2016 Moisture flow becomes cut off Saturday night as PoPs diminish heading into Sunday morning. Shower and thunderstorm activity will wind down through Saturday night with only a few lingering slgt chc areas on Sunday morning. High pressure will prevail in the southwest on Sunday before flattening and becoming elongated across the southern states as we head into Monday. Flow aloft during the Monday through Wednesday time frame will be very weak but will mainly be westerly to northwesterly. A series of troughs will traverse the northern Plains with PoPs remaining north of the CWA through mid week. We should remain south of any influence from this activity through Wednesday. A relatively deep trough will dive southeastward on Thursday and increase the PoP chances across the region, especially in the western and northwestern portions of the CWA through around midday and further east through the evening hours. As we head into Friday the pattern begins to shift southward, bringing better rain and thunderstorm chances into the area through the day and into the weekend. Temperatures during the period will be normal to just above normal. Look for highs in the upper 80s on Sunday and Monday with lower to middle 90s Tuesday through Thursday as weak high pressure slides across the CWA. Middle to upper 80s will prevail once more as we head into Friday and the weekend. Lows will fall into a very seasonal lower 60s each night with a few middle 60s values in the eastern portions of the CWA. && .AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Saturday night) Issued at 1015 PM MDT Fri Aug 12 2016 KGLD and KMCK, vfr conditions currently expected through the period. Sfc high currently over the area this evening with light and variable winds. For Saturday sfc high moves east with low pressure over the Denver metro area. This will allow for slowly increasing southerly winds over KGLD with light southeast winds at KMCK. Toward the 22z timeframe at KGLD showers and thunderstorms possible through about 02z or 03z while at KMCK appears to be in the 00z-05z timeframe as a weather disturbance moves in from the northwest. Have trended toward the better performing hrrr model (past several days) compared to the nam. Hrrr has backed off a bit on wind gusts compared to earlier runs but still shows gusty winds with the stronger storms so have kept it in the taf. If a thunderstorm were to directly impact either terminal visibilities could drop into mvfr/ifr range but this far out in the forecast probabilities too low to include in the forecast. && .GLD Watches/Warnings/Advisories... KS...NONE. CO...NONE. NE...NONE. && SHORT TERM...DLF LONG TERM...TL AVIATION...99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1026 AM MDT FRI AUG 12 2016 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-131630- YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1026 AM MDT FRI AUG 12 2016 /1126 AM CDT FRI AUG 12 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS, MAINLY LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:11 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Estimated wind speeds to be around 60 MPH as the storm moved through.
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