Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2025

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Goodland, KS

September 9, 2025Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2025, 3:54 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 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
Sep 9, 2025, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2025, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 9, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 262 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 2025-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 808 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 2025-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
808 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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 Sep 9, 12:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 12:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 2:55 PM MDT, 59 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
255 PM MDT Tue Sep 9 2025

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-102100-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
255 PM MDT Tue Sep 9 2025 /355 PM CDT Tue Sep 9 2025/

This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska...
northwest Kansas and east central Colorado.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued until 9 PM MT. Hail
around one to one and a half inches is the main threat, though hail
up to 3 inches could occur. Wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph are also
possible. Two waves of storms are forecast, starting in the early
afternoon lasting into the night.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

Patchy to locally dense fog may form Wednesday morning where it
occurred Tuesday morning. Travel may become hazardous.

There are low chances for severe storms daily through at least
Saturday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 3:08 AM MDTDense Fog AdvisoryGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton6 hr
Sep 9, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDSherman, Wallace63 min
Sep 9, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace54 min
Sep 9, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma63 min
Sep 9, 4:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDKit Carson3 hr
Sep 9, 5:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2025Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2025Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.