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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Goodland, KS

August 9, 2026Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2026, 8:44 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 9, 2026, 8:44 PM MDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2026, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 234 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4290 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
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 6:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham12 min
Aug 9, 6:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham17 min
Aug 9, 10:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne38 min
Aug 9, 10:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins77 min
Aug 9, 7:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne20 min
Aug 9, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne43 min
Aug 9, 9:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma42 min
Aug 10, 1:23 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma37 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.