High Wind — Greeley, Kansas

2025-03-04 · Greeley, Kansas

Event narrative

A picture was sent via Facebook of their personal home Ambient weather station of 83 mph 14 W Horace. Other reports across the area included a 71, 69, and 64 mph wind gusts recorded on Weather Underground site Steele-KKSTRIBU34 located 12 W Horace. Another 68 mph wind gust was reported 6 E Tribune on Weather Underground station 5.5M E TRIBUNE KS - KKSTRIBU27.

Wider weather episode

A strong weather system moved across Northwest Kansas causing a multitude of weather hazards across the area such as blizzard conditions, damaging winds, dust and a wildfire. The most notable ones were an 83 mph wind gust and brownout conditions in Greeley County, a flipped semi in Thomas County, and a brief closure of Interstate 70 eastbound between KS 267 and US 24 due to a crash caused by the wind. Near blizzard to blizzard conditions also occurred across Sherman, Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham and Norton counties; very little impacts occurred with these conditions however.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1239264. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.