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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS Goodland, KS

October 16, 2025Cheyenne County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 2025, 6:43 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
Oct 16, 2025, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 2025, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Cheyenne County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 275 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 2025-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2025-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Oct 16, 6:23 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 6:23 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 16, 2:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
123 PM MDT Thu Oct 16 2025

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123 PM MDT Thu Oct 16 2025 /223 PM CDT Thu Oct 16 2025/

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

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

Showers and thunderstorms will develop over portions of the area
this afternoon, mainly in northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska. A
severe storm or two capable of producing large hail and damaging
winds. There is a less than 5 percent chance of a brief tornado
occurring as well.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

Frost and freezing temperatures are possible Sunday morning. The most
likely area for freezing temperatures is currently favored across
eastern Colorado and adjacent Kansas and Nebraska counties. Prepare
livestock and any sensitive vegetation now for either frost or
freezing temperatures.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Active weather across portions of the Tri-State Area is anticipated.
Spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 3:15 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDRawlins4 hr
Oct 16, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne35 min
Oct 16, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson53 min
Oct 16, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson24 min
Oct 16, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma44 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.