Thunderstorm Wind, Red Willow
- When
- August 19, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Red Willow County, Mc Cook
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 40.200, -100.620
Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 19, 2010
Thunderstorms moved across Red Willow county during the afternoon, producing strong winds reaching 67 mph at McCook.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moved across Red Willow county during the afternoon, producing strong winds reaching 67 mph at McCook.
What forecasters said that day
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 19, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 230 PM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 .DISCUSSION... 230 PM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG SFC TROUGH AXIS STRETCHING FROM SOUTHEAST COLORADO NORTH AND EAST INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH TRANSLATES EAST ARRIVING OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS TONIGHT. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE WEIGHTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN ZONES OR ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 36 WHERE BETTER LARGE SCALE FORCING FOR ASCENT IS PROGGED. A STABLE-POST FRONTAL REGIME IS ANTICIPATED ON FRI IN THE WAKE OF THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AREA WITH SEASONABLE HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S/LOWER 90S ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. SAT-SUN...RISING HEIGHTS/INCREASING THICKNESS SUPPORT RISING TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE WEEKEND WITH VALUES REBOUNDING INTO THE MID AND UPPER 90S ON SUN. MONDAY-THURSDAY...AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD, A SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS PROGGED TO TRANSLATE EAST ALONG THE US/CANADIAN BORDER WHILE A COLD FRONT SWEEPS SOUTH AND EAST OVER THE GREAT PLAINS. THIS TROUGH WILL HELP TO BREAK DOWN THE MID/UPPER RIDGE LATE MONDAY WITH SCT TSRA ANTICIPATED THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. A STABLE POST-FRONTAL REGIME IS ANTICIPATED TUE-WED WITH ANOTHER FROPA PROGGED LATE THU AS A MID/UPPER TROUGH TRANSLATES EAST OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. && .AVIATION... 1111 AM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 FOR THE 18Z TAF CYCLE...ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS ALONG A SURFACE TROUGH LOCATED FROM NORTH PLATTE SOUTHWEST TO LIMON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD IMPACT EITHER KGLD OR KMCK WITH BRIEF GUSTY WINDS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. 024 && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 10:35 AM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1035 AM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-201200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1035 AM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 /1135 AM CDT THU AUG 19 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INCREASING IN COVERAGE TONIGHT AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...BUT COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISOLATED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE COLORADO KANSAS BORDER LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE NEARLY EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:24 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 224 PM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 KSZ014-192100- THOMAS- 324 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 320 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LEVANT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM. SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE LEVANT AND BREWSTER. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. 024
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:48 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 248 PM MDT THU AUG 19 2010 KSZ002-014-192115- RAWLINS-THOMAS- 348 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 55 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH FROM NORTH CENTRAL THOMAS COUNTY INTO SOUTH CENTRAL RAWLINS COUNTY. MAINLY RURAL AREAS WILL BE IMPACTED. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. 024
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:56 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Excessive Heat and Heat in Tennessee, August 19 to 22, 2010
- Excessive Heat and Heat in Arkansas, August 19 to 22, 2010
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, August 19, 2010
- Flash Flooding in Utah, August 19, 2010
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 19, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, August 19 to 20, 2010
- Excessive Heat and Heat in Mississippi, August 19 to 22, 2010
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 19, 2010
- Heat in Arkansas, August 19 to 22, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Flood in North Carolina, August 19, 2010
- Flash Flood in Virginia, August 19, 2010
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Puerto Rico, August 19, 2010
More
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Sources
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: 243647.