6" in Dodge City! I just drove around the north part of town, and the side roads are a mess as one would expect. It is snowing about 1 to 1.5" per hour right now. 5:30pm I measured 6 to 6.5" in the backyard which has short grass… it definitely looks like a solid 6" out there now for sure.
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April 13, 2007
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [12]
3.5 inches of wet snow so far. I just went out and measured roughly 3.5" of snow as of 3:45pm CDT. Here is a photo from in front of my place at the time I measured:
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [12]
It is absolutely snowing to beat the band out there. Incredible! Look at all the CGs from Garden to Dodge!
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [11]
Cloud-to-Ground Lightning + Snow in Dodge City!!! Bright flash of Cloud-to-Ground lightning just a few moments ago!! Wow!! This is the first bonafide thundersnow I’ve experienced since I was a kid in 1993 in Kansas City. About time! Check out all the lightning around Garden City:
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [10]
Heavy Snow in Dodge! Snow is starting to stick now on everything, including my side street… here’s the first photo of the day:
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [8]
Back and Forth… Really interesting what’s going on in Dodge City right now… we have gone back to a "chunky" rain. The heavier echoes on radar are very large aggregate snowflakes which take longer to melt…thus we see it at the surface as snow… but smaller flakes do not take as much time to melt…thus we see rain. Talk about borderline. Winter Precipitation microphysics at its finest.
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [7]
It begins! We just changed over to snow a few minutes ago. Here is the radar image just after 11am… very heavy snow is coming!!
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [6]
Convective snow over far southwest KS! Radar image below with lightning strikes reveals thundersnow over Morton and Stanton counties! It’s still a sleet/rain mix here in Dodge at 36 degrees…. soooo close.
Western Kansas Spring Snowstorm April 13 [5]
Rain-Snow line just northwest of Dodge City. I just woke up after about 4 hrs of sleep to see what’s happening outside. It’s not snowing yet, but I do hear pings of sleet against the window… I knew we’d be damn close to the rain/snow line at this time here. It’s S+ in Garden City on the latest ob at shortly after 9am CDT. Radar shows a ton of precip heading up this way as the comma-head of the low develops right over Southwest Kansas. I think just northwest of Dodge City is where the deformation axis will set up and this is where the 8-12"+ snow axis will likely be.
