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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Goodland, KS

July 3, 2026Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 6:58 PM CDT for Graham 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: Jul 3, 2026, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2026, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 368 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: 1586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jul 3, 6:00 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 6:00 PM CDT, 58 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
Jul 2, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	25 min
Jul 2, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	12 min
Jul 2, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	19 min
Jul 2, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	60 min
Jul 3, 6:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	29 min
Jul 3, 6:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	29 min
Jul 3, 7:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Decatur, Norton	3 hr
Jul 3, 7:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	15 min
Jul 3, 7:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	28 min
Jul 3, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	26 min
Jul 2, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	52 min
Jul 2, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Red Willow	35 min
Jul 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	76 min
Jul 2, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	22 min
Jul 2, 8:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	5 hr
Jul 2, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	64 min
Jul 2, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	53 min
Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	50 min
Jul 3, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	34 min
Jul 3, 2:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	12 hr
Jul 3, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	33 min
Jul 3, 3:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	108 min
Jul 3, 5:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	3 hr
Jul 3, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	33 min
Jul 3, 5:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	16 min
Jul 3, 6:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	23 min
Jul 3, 7:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Hitchcock	3 hr
Jul 3, 7:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	6 hr

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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.