High Wind, Cloud
- When
- October 29, 3:21 PM CST
- Where
- Cloud forecast zone
- Measured
- 49 kt (56 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.480, -97.649 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Kansas, October 29, 1996
Concordia Blosser Municipal airport recorded a sustainded wind of 46 miles an hour ending at 3:21 PM CST. The period of the sustainded wind included a gust to 57 miles an hour at 3:20 PM CST.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
Concordia Blosser Municipal airport recorded a sustainded wind of 46 miles an hour ending at 3:21 PM CST. The period of the sustainded wind included a gust to 57 miles an hour at 3:20 PM CST.
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 Colorado, October 29, 1996
- High Wind in Iowa, October 29 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in South Dakota, October 29 to 30, 1996
- Hail in Wisconsin, October 29, 1996
- High Wind in Nebraska, October 29, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, October 29, 1996
- High Wind in Nebraska, October 29 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, October 29, 1996
- High Wind in Nebraska, October 29 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, October 29, 1996
- High Wind in Minnesota, October 29 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in Iowa, October 29 to 30, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5563228.