Strong thunderstorms moved from eastern Colorado into portions of northwest Kansas producing strong, damaging winds in several locations during the early evening hours.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
Strong thunderstorms moved from eastern Colorado into portions of northwest Kansas producing strong, damaging winds in several locations during the early evening hours.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 24, 5:37 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 537 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009 .DISCUSSION... 300 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009 FORECAST CHALLENGE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK AS THERE IS ANOTHER BRIEF PERIOD OF ACTIVE WEATHER BEFORE THE NEXT RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE AMPLIFIES OVER THE WESTERN U.S. LATE IN THE WEEK. THE SURFACE TROUGH MOVES EAST THIS EVENING WITH A COLD FRONT TO FOLLOW OVERNIGHT AS A COUPLE WAVES EMBEDDED IN THE UPPER LEVEL SOUTHWEST FLOW LIFT ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. THIS SHOULD BRING A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY TO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING THAT SHOULD REDEVELOP AGAIN TOMORROW AND BE MORE WIDESPREAD DURING TUESDAY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS THE UPPER FLOW TURNS MORE WESTERLY AND A TROUGH MOVES EAST OF THE ROCKIES AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS BY LATE WEDNESDAY. EXPECT THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS AND SURFACE TROUGH TO BE MAINLY EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY WEDNESDAY EVENING...SO SHOULD SEE A DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. AS THE UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFIES OVER THE WESTERN U.S. AND THE UPPER FLOW TURNS MORE NORTHWESTERLY OVER THE TRI-STATE REGION...EXPECT A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER FROM THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WITH THE NEXT POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE TROUGH IS TRANSPORTED THROUGH THE REGION AND THERE APPEARS TO BE A GOOD SOUTHEAST FETCH O0F RETURN FLOW MOISTURE MAKING ITS WAY BACK INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS BY THAT TIME PERIOD. TEMPERATURES THROUGH MOST OF THE FORECAST PERIOD WILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT SIMILAR WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND LOWS IN THE 50S ONCE THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. LOCKHART && .AVIATION... 537 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009 FOR THE 00Z TAF CYCLE...IMMEDIATE CONCERN IS THE ONGOING CONVECTION ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO. AT THIS TIME, MORE CONFIDENCE THAT STORMS MAY DIRECTLY IMPACT KGLD THAN AT KMCK...HAVE REFLECTED THIS IN FORECAST. LATE IN TAF, CROSS SECTION RH AND POINT SOUNDINGS INDICATE POTENTIAL FOR SUB-VFR CIGS AT BOTH TERMINALS. WILL INCLUDE A LOW VFR CLOUD GROUP FOR NOW AND LET SUBSEQUENT SHIFTS MONITOR. GJG && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1030 AM MDT MON AUG 24 2009 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-251200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1030 AM MDT MON AUG 24 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 27. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITIES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
420 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009
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0405 PM HAIL 7 S STRATTON 39.21N 102.61W
08/24/2009 E1.00 INCH KIT CARSON CO PUBLIC
PUBLIC ALSO REPORTS STRONG WINDS WHICH SNAPPED A 4-5 INCH
LIVE TREE BRANCH.
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GJGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
431 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009
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0415 PM HAIL 4 SSE STRATTON 39.24N 102.58W
08/24/2009 E1.75 INCH KIT CARSON CO PUBLIC
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GJGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
439 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009
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0439 PM HAIL 1 N BETHUNE 39.32N 102.42W
08/24/2009 E0.75 INCH KIT CARSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER
ALSO MEASURED PEAK WIND GUST OF 49 MPH
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024PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
458 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009
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0450 PM HAIL 2 N BETHUNE 39.33N 102.42W
08/24/2009 E0.75 INCH KIT CARSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER REPORTS PLENTY OF HAIL..INCLUDING SOME DRIFTS.
ALSO REPORTS MEASURED WIND GUST OF 50MPH.
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GJGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
604 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009
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0450 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 NE BETHUNE 39.36N 102.35W
08/24/2009 KIT CARSON CO PUBLIC
PUBLIC REPORT OF TWO SHEDS BLOWN OVER BY STRONG
WINDS..ONE OF THE SHEDS IS OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION.
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GJGSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 649 PM MDT MON AUG 24 2009 KSZ013-014-250130- SHERMAN-THOMAS- 749 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND WESTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINONA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. BULLER
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:02 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A 12-inch diameter tree branch was blown onto a house in the south part of town. Power lines were also downed in strong winds. Numerous 3-5 inch diameter tree limbs were down throughout town.
Many 3-4 inch diameter live tree branches blown down by thunderstorm winds and thrown 300 feet. The person calling stated he physically could not open the south door of the house because the winds were so strong. He also received 1.50 inches of rain with the storm.
Tree limbs of unknown diameter blown down in town as a result of thunderstorm winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2009
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 186079, 186081, 186085.