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Red Flag Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 19, 2025, 12:24 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 20, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Oct 19, 2025, 12:24 PM MDT (18:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 20, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 252 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.