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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Goodland, KS

August 19, 2026Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2026, 7:06 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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 19, 2026, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 265 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 2026-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1208 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 2026-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
1208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 7:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan28 min
Aug 19, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace52 min
Aug 19, 8:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace67 min
Aug 19, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan60 min
Aug 19, 9:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan57 min
Aug 19, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman68 min
Aug 19, 10:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan29 min
Aug 19, 11:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan34 min
Aug 19, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDKit Carson75 min
Aug 19, 8:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDKit Carson62 min
Aug 19, 11:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson23 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.