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The public record 1996 to today

Kansas wind history

The public federal storm record holds 2,622 days with wind on record somewhere in Kansas since 1996, 2,301 of them at 58 mph or more, across 72,247 reports. The strongest on record is 127 mph sustained on 2 August 1996 in PRATT County. 64 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: Kansas hail history.

2,622

Days with wind on record, statewide

2,301

Days at 58 mph or more

127mph

Strongest measured, Aug 1996

64

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Kansas

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Garden City 306 days 111 mph
  2. 02 Wichita 292 days 111 mph
  3. 03 Haysville 277 days 111 mph
  4. 04 Dodge City 266 days 100 mph
  5. 05 Maize 253 days 102 mph
  6. 06 Colby 247 days 100 mph
  7. 07 Bel Aire 229 days 100 mph
  8. 08 Goddard 227 days 102 mph
  9. 09 Andover 220 days 100 mph
  10. 10 Park City 217 days 100 mph
  11. 11 Topeka 213 days 96 mph
  12. 12 Mission 211 days 92 mph
  13. 13 Roeland Park 209 days 92 mph
  14. 14 Prairie Village 207 days 92 mph
  15. 15 Valley Center 207 days 100 mph
  16. 16 Overland Park 206 days 86 mph
  17. 17 Lenexa 204 days 89 mph
  18. 18 Leawood 199 days 86 mph
  19. 19 Merriam 198 days 92 mph
  20. 20 Kansas City 191 days 92 mph
  21. 21 Derby 188 days 111 mph
  22. 22 Shawnee 186 days 89 mph
  23. 23 Olathe 181 days 89 mph
  24. 24 Hutchinson 176 days 100 mph
  25. 25 Lawrence 169 days 90 mph
  26. 26 De Soto 160 days 89 mph
  27. 27 Salina 159 days 113 mph
  28. 28 Arkansas City 157 days 112 mph
  29. 29 Spring Hill 155 days 86 mph
  30. 30 Eudora 155 days 90 mph
Every place in Kansas (64)

Wind days by year in Kansas

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2024, with 118 days of wind, 93 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Kansas

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Kansas: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
02 Aug 1996 127 mph Sustained Ground observation PRATT
26 Jul 2006 120 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
26 Jul 2006 120 mph Gust Ground observation FORD
28 Feb 2012 120 mph Gust Ground observation CRAWFORD
28 Feb 2012 120 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
15 Dec 2021 120 mph Gust Ground observation NORTON
29 May 2024 120 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
29 May 2024 120 mph Gust Ground observation GREELEY
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The figures on this page are the record across Kansas: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under Kansas by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.