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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS

March 31, 20257 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 31, 2025, 3:51 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 1, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 2025, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 1, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 1, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.