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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
- 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
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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</html>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 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-171930- Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas- Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock- Red Willow- 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GLD | Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Oct 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 35 min |
| Oct 16, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 53 min |
| Oct 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 24 min |
| Oct 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 44 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.