A NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar in Kansas, the United States, operated by National Weather Service, NOAA.
- Station
- Goodland (KGLD)
- Operator
- National Weather Service, NOAA
- Network
- NEXRAD WSR-88D
- Antenna
- 39.367° N, 101.700° W, 3,651 ft (1,113 m) above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width
KGLD is the Goodland weather radar, a NEXRAD WSR-88D operated by the National Weather Service. The antenna stands in Sherman County on the High Plains of northwest Kansas, about 2 km from Goodland, and the Goodland forecast office is responsible for it.
The office describes Goodland as sitting about 3,700 feet above sea level, roughly 19 miles east of the Colorado border and 32 miles south of the Nebraska border. Its warning area takes in 13 counties in northwest Kansas, 3 in eastern Colorado and 3 in southwest Nebraska, which is why Burlington, Colorado appears among the nearby towns. Wikipedia's NEXRAD site table gives 13 December 1992 as the date the radar's data record begins.
Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.