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Blowing Dust Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

July 8, 2026Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this blowing dust warning at Jul 8, 2026, 7:14 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma 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
Jul 8, 2026, 7:14 PM MDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2026, 8:11 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2026-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1735 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2026-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 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
1735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley18 min
Jul 8, 7:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace17 min
Jul 8, 8:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne35 min
Jul 8, 8:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne28 min
Jul 8, 9:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDCheyenne, Sherman37 min
Jul 8, 9:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDRawlins13 min
Jul 8, 10:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur20 min
Jul 8, 11:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur24 min
Jul 9, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins67 min
Jul 8, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma33 min
Jul 8, 7:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma30 min
Jul 8, 7:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Jul 8, 8:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne16 min
Jul 9, 5:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson23 min
Jul 9, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson54 min
Jul 9, 5:56 PM MDTBlowing Dust WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma81 min
Jul 9, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma61 min
Jul 8, 10:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock37 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.