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Blowing Dust Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this blowing dust warning at Feb 17, 2026, 11:05 AM CST for 9 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2026, 11:05 AM CST (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2026, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 3717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blowing dust 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 blowing dust warning went out at Feb 17, 5:30 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 5:30 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
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Local storm report, Feb 17, 10:49 AM CST, 16 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Goodland KS
949 AM MST Tue Feb 17 2026
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0939 AM Non-Tstm Wnd Gst 7 N Stratton 39.41N 102.62W
02/17/2026 E55 MPH Kit Carson CO Mesonet
Seven Farms (AWN) site reported a 55 MPH
Gust.
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DHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 11:43 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 11 hr |
Nearby
Blowing Dust Warnings in Kansas, 2026Blowing Dust Warnings in Colorado, 2026Blowing Dust Warnings in Nebraska, 2026Every blowing dust warning in 2026
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.