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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Goodland, KS

August 31, 2026Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2026, 7:53 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 2026, 7:53 PM MDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 2026, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 2026-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 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 2026-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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 31, 6:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Aug 31, 6:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Aug 31, 6:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne30 min
Aug 31, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins63 min
Aug 31, 7:04 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDCheyenne4 hr
Aug 31, 6:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Aug 31, 7:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Aug 31, 11:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson4 hr
Aug 31, 8:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy14 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.