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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

April 23, 2025Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2025, 10:58 AM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2025, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2025, 11:14 AM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 23, 10:52 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 10:52 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 9:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 8:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
817 AM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025

KSZ015-016-231330-
Sheridan KS-Graham KS-
817 AM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN SHERIDAN AND
SOUTHWESTERN GRAHAM COUNTIES THROUGH 830 AM CDT...

At 817 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 6
miles northeast of Quinter, moving east at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southeastern
Sheridan and southwestern Graham Counties, including the following
locations... Saint Peter.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 10025 3922 10025 3927 9993 3913 9992
TIME...MOT...LOC 1317Z 268DEG 19KT 3914 10016

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

JRM

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 8:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:50 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1050 AM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025

KSZ016-231615-
Graham KS-
1050 AM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTH CENTRAL GRAHAM COUNTY
THROUGH 1115 AM CDT...

At 1049 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles north of Wakeeney, moving east at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of south central
Graham County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 10000 3921 10003 3930 9981 3913 9972
TIME...MOT...LOC 1549Z 251DEG 22KT 3915 9991

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

JRM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 8:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	13 min
Apr 23, 8:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	21 min
Apr 23, 10:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	25 min
Apr 23, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	30 min
Apr 23, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	36 min
Apr 23, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	18 min
Apr 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	45 min
Apr 23, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas, Wallace	49 min
Apr 23, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	19 min
Apr 23, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	52 min
Apr 23, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	32 min
Apr 23, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Thomas, Wallace	36 min
Apr 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	45 min
Apr 23, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	31 min
Apr 23, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	45 min
Apr 23, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	24 min

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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.