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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Goodland, KS

July 4, 2025Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2025, 5:36 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
Jul 4, 2025, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2025, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 12:00Z on 2025-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 170 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2025-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 4:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur31 min
Jul 4, 5:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley29 min
Jul 4, 5:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove36 min
Jul 4, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove44 min
Jul 4, 5:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDGove4 hr
Jul 4, 5:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDDecatur, Norton3 hr
Jul 4, 4:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne29 min
Jul 4, 5:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne36 min
Jul 4, 2:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy34 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.