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Regional Weather Summary for the High Plains

National Weather Service Goodland KS

233 AM MDT Thu May 2 2024



High temperatures on Wednesday ranged from the lower 60s to lower

70s, warmest in Burlington, Colorado and coolest in McCook, 

Nebraska. Isolated supercell thunderstorms developed in Gove 

County, Kansas Wednesday afternoon, producing baseball to softball

sized hail along Highway 23 near the Gove and Lane County border.

A separate batch of thunderstorms that developed in northeast 

Colorado during the late afternoon tracked eastward across 

northwest Kansas during the evening, producing numerous instances 

of large hail and occasional wind gusts as high as 60 to 80 mph. 

Thunderstorms ended from west to east shortly after Midnight MDT. 

Rainfall amounts varied considerably across the region,. Goodland 

and Burlington received no measurable precipitation, McCook 

measured four tenths of an inch and Hill City measured over one 

inch of rainfall. At 230 AM MDT this morning, the sky was overcast

and temperatures ranged from the lower to upper 40s.



OUTLOOK... Expect a west to east clearing trend this morning

followed by mostly sunny skies this afternoon, with highs in the 

60s. Another round of severe weather is expected on Friday. This

is the atmosphere's way of reminding us that it's May. Scattered 

thunderstorms are anticipated to develop over portions of 

northeast Colorado and northwest Kansas Friday afternoon. Severe 

storms capable of producing damaging winds are possible, mainly 

late Friday afternoon and Friday evening, as storms increase in 

coverage and track southeast toward southwestern and south-central

Kansas.



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Vincent