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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Goodland, KS

August 10, 20254 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2025, 1:50 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 25 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: Aug 10, 2025, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2025, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 9, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	12 hr
Aug 9, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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-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: 2074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Aug 10, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 11:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 9:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	58 min
Aug 9, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman	36 min
Aug 9, 8:24 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	51 min
Aug 9, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	66 min
Aug 9, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	65 min
Aug 9, 8:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne	6 hr
Aug 9, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	45 min
Aug 9, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	31 min
Aug 9, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	37 min
Aug 9, 10:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Norton	5 hr
Aug 10, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	59 min
Aug 10, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	24 min
Aug 10, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	25 min
Aug 10, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	45 min
Aug 10, 2:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	14 min
Aug 10, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	30 min
Aug 10, 5:49 PM CDT	Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	7 hr
Aug 9, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	19 min
Aug 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	44 min
Aug 10, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	64 min
Aug 10, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	44 min
Aug 10, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	30 min
Aug 9, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	21 min

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.