Fort Scott, KS Weather Forecast
Bourbon County, Kansas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Fort Scott, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry afternoon, clear
It is 55° with a dew point of 34°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is clear. The wind is out of the north at 16 mph.
Pressure is easing down, 0.03 inHg over the last hour. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 30°. Tomorrow reaches 48°, 7° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
26–65°F across the weekThe week runs between 26° and 61°, with Wednesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Fort Scott, KS at a glance
Fort Scott is home to about 7,565 people in Bourbon County, across 5.6 square miles. It ranks 48th by population of 99 places in Kansas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Nevada, 19 miles away.
- County
- Bourbon County
- Population
- 7,565 2023 est.
- Land area
- 5.6 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,355
- Forecast point
- 37.8280°N, 94.7041°W
How well can the network see Fort Scott?
The nearest Doppler radar is KEAX (Kansas City, MO), to the NNE. Its lowest scan passes about 5,900 ft above Fort Scott. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Fort Scott can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KFSK (Fort Scott Muni). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Fort Scott
- Nevada, MO19 mi
- Frontenac, KS26 mi
- Pittsburg, KS29 mi
- Lamar, MO33 mi
- Butler, MO36 mi
- El Dorado Springs, MO37 mi
- Iola, KS39 mi
- Chanute, KS43 mi
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