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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2025, 6:06 PM CDT for Gove County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2025, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2025, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gove County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 52 | 4 E Grinnell, KS | UP830 measured 52 mph wind gust. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
079 WUUS53 KGLD 182306 SVRGLD KSC063-179-182330- /O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0310.250818T2306Z-250818T2330Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Goodland KS 606 PM CDT Mon Aug 18 2025 The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Sheridan County in northwestern Kansas... North central Gove County in west central Kansas... * Until 630 PM CDT. * At 606 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Grainfield, moving west at 5 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of southwestern Sheridan and north central Gove Counties. This includes Interstate 70 in Kansas between mile markers 86 and 101. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3917 10035 3905 10034 3907 10064 3924 10064 TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 099DEG 5KT 3912 10049 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH $$ Meister
1 follow-up statement
760 WWUS53 KGLD 182319 SVSGLD Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Goodland KS 619 PM CDT Mon Aug 18 2025 KSC063-179-182330- /O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-250818T2330Z/ Sheridan KS-Gove KS- 619 PM CDT Mon Aug 18 2025 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN SHERIDAN AND NORTH CENTRAL GOVE COUNTIES... At 618 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Grainfield, moving west at 5 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... Grainfield and Grinnell. This includes Interstate 70 in Kansas between mile markers 86 and 97. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3918 10041 3905 10041 3907 10064 3924 10064 TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 099DEG 5KT 3912 10051 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH $$ Meister
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 31 min |
| Aug 18, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Thomas | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 38 min |
| Aug 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.