Great Bend, KS Weather Forecast
Barton County, Kansas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Great Bend, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Great Bend, KS at a glance
Great Bend is home to about 14,372 people in Barton County, across 11 square miles. It ranks 26th by population of 99 places in Kansas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Hoisington, 11 miles away.
- County
- Barton County
- Population
- 14,372 2023 est.
- Land area
- 11 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,365
- Forecast point
- 38.3598°N, 98.7995°W
How well can the network see Great Bend?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDDC (Dodge City, KS), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 6,600 ft above Great Bend. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Great Bend can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KGBD (Great Bend Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Great Bend
- Hoisington, KS11 mi
- Larned, KS20 mi
- Lyons, KS32 mi
- Russell, KS37 mi
- Ellsworth, KS40 mi
- Pratt, KS46 mi
- Hays, KS46 mi
- South Hutchinson, KS52 mi
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