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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2026, 10:09 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2026, 10:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 18 min |
| Jul 8, 8:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 17 min |
| Jul 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 13 min |
| Jul 8, 11:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 20 min |
| Jul 9, 12:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 24 min |
| Jul 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 19 min |
| Jul 8, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 16 min |
| Jul 9, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 6:56 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 81 min |
| Jul 9, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 11:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.