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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Goodland, KS

May 24, 2025Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2025, 11:18 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 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: May 24, 2025, 11:18 PM MDT (05:18 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2025, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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
May 24, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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 May 24, 5:10 PM MDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 5:10 PM MDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:19 PM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more	16 hr
May 25, 12:15 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	15 min
May 25, 12:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	32 min
May 25, 12:45 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	15 min
May 25, 12:56 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	34 min
May 25, 1:42 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	18 min
May 25, 1:45 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	30 min
May 25, 1:58 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	17 min
May 25, 2:11 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	19 min
May 24, 9:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	25 min
May 24, 9:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
May 24, 10:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	25 min
May 24, 10:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	32 min
May 24, 10:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
May 24, 11:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	28 min
May 25, 12:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	28 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.