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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