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Issued by NWS Dodge City, KS
Issued by NWS Dodge City, KS
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116 FXUS63 KDDC 112301 AFDDDC Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Dodge City KS 601 PM CDT Fri Jul 11 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - A cold front will push through the region tonight with showers and thunderstorms possible (>50%) mainly late this evening to overnight - Cooler (afternoon highs in the 80s) along with dry conditions will then prevail for the remainder of the weekend - Chance (>30%) for showers and thunderstorms returns by middle of next week && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 339 PM CDT Fri Jul 11 2025 Water vapor imagery from this afternoon reveals a relatively flat upper air flow regime across the CONUS although with two notable short waves seen rippling across central US. The first wave stretches from the Upper Midwest into eastern KS/OK while the other wave extends from North Dakota back into the Central Rockies. The first wave is leaving an area of subsidence behind it across the western half of KS with little in the wave of cloud cover. However, the second wave is already helping initiate convection along the Front Range to Sangre De Cristo ranges in CO and NM. Closer to the surface, the aforementioned first wave has helped push a weak front southward earlier this morning but now nearly stalled just south of the Kansas...Oklahoma state line. While there is decent MLCAPE of 2000-2500 J/kg along this boundary and only modest inhibition...the subsidence behind the exiting wave is helping create a very dry LCL- LFC layer that is limiting initiation as noted by only shallow CU. While there is still some potential (<20%) for deep convection to initiate near the KS...OK state line into the early evening... the overall shear profile as noted in the KDDC 88D VWP profile is very weak which suggests any convection that does develop will struggle to organize. The lone exception to that rule is higher DCAPE values in excess of 1000 J/kg that would support decent downdraft potential even with shorter duration storms. Otherwise...attention will shift toward later this evening into the overnight hours as the aforementioned wave across the Central Rockies pushes a secondary cold front into western KS. While MCS maintenance will be marginal...there is a modest 30-35 kt LLJ that noses into southwest Kansas by 06Z right as the front moves into the area. This should allow convection to move out of CO/NM and blossom over far western KS by midnight. With shear profiles remaining weak...unlikely this will result in a widespread severe convective threat. This convection will then slowly shift east-southeast across the area during the overnight to early morning hours with the highest probability (around 30%) for rainfall to exceed 0.5-in generally west of US Highway 283. Other than some lingering showers/thunderstorms during the morning to early afternoon hours...Saturday will see the short wave and associated front slide east into the lower Great Plains. This will result in subsidence and dry weather prevailing by mid afternoon along with decreasing cloud cover. Nonetheless, this will result in a cooler start to the weekend with afternoon highs staying in the 80s. For the remainder of the weekend into early next week ENS and GFES means reveal upper ridging building over the Central Rockies and adjacent Central High Plains with dry conditions prevailing (probability of exceeding 0.10-in near zero). This will also result in temperatures gradually increasing back into the 90s for afternoon highs by Tuesday. For the middle to end of the week there are some signs in the ENS and GEFS means of another monsoonal oriented moisture plume pushing into the region that interacts with a northern stream short wave. This will bring the next associated chance for thunderstorms and slightly cooler temps (probability of exceeding 90 F <30%) && .AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY/... Issued at 601 PM CDT Fri Jul 11 2025 VFR conditions are expected with mostly clear skies until the overnight hours when a line of storms is expected to move through SW Kansas and impact all terminals. A lighter (up to 10 KTs) E/NE wind is expected through the period excluding thunderstorm wind gusts. Storms are forecast to reach LBL by around 5Z with the rest of the terminals lagging a couple hours. Due to prominent uncertainty in precise timing, coverage, and duration, a PROB30 group was using in lieu of a prevailing weather group. If the storms develop and move as forecast, then flight conditions are expected to be lowered potentially even lower than MVFR for all terminals. && .DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && $$ DISCUSSION...AJohnson AVIATION...KBJ