High Wind, Shawnee
- When
- January 17, 9:30 PM CST to 9:32 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Coordinates
- 39.042, -95.756 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Kansas, January 17, 1996
High winds accompanying a powerful cold front gusted to an estimated 60 to 70 mph and caused roof damage to a green house and an adjacent roller ring near 10th and Fairlawn. Freezing rain, sleet, snow and rapidly dropping temperatures in the wake of the front hampered cleanup and caused more damage to plants, flowers and other interior objects.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- 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 TOP wrote it up.
High winds accompanying a powerful cold front gusted to an estimated 60 to 70 mph and caused roof damage to a green house and an adjacent roller ring near 10th and Fairlawn. Freezing rain, sleet, snow and rapidly dropping temperatures in the wake of the front hampered cleanup and caused more damage to plants, flowers and other interior objects. Near blizzard conditions lingered into the next day when many schools, businesses and roads were closed. Winds chills hit 60 below at times.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Texas, January 17, 1996
- Blizzard in South Dakota, January 17 to 18, 1996
- High Wind in Kansas, January 17 to 18, 1996
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 17 to 18, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, January 17, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, January 17, 1996
- Blizzard in Minnesota, January 17 to 18, 1996
- Dust Storm in Arizona, January 17, 1996
- High Wind in Iowa, January 17 to 19, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, January 17, 1996
- High Wind in Texas, January 17 to 18, 1996
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, January 17 to 18, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, January 1996
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: 5539284.