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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2025, 3:16 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 14 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 24, 2025, 3:16 PM MDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2025, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 24, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:09 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 11:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 12:26 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 24 min |
| Aug 24, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 12:07 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 1:09 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 7:31 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 7:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 24 min |
| Aug 24, 8:00 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 10:18 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 27 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.