Pawnee Rock, Kansas Weather
Pawnee Rock, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Pawnee Rock, Barton County.
Full aviation weather for Pawnee Rock is published on the Larned Pawnee County Airport (KLQR) page, 11 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 3 airfields within reach of Pawnee Rock have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Pawnee Rock: Great Bend Municipal Airport (KGBD) 14 km · Rush County Airport (K94) 41 km
Conditions reported at KLQR describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pawnee Rock specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pawnee Rock.
About Pawnee Rock, Kansas
Pawnee Rock rises, a low, resolute mound against the vast Kansas sky, its sun-baked earth a testament to the relentless prairie sun. It lies 58.8 miles west-north-west of Hutchinson, KS (from Hutchinson, KS: bearing 284°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north-east of Larned. The wind, a constant companion here, whispers across the sparse grasses, carrying the scent of dry soil and distant wheat fields. To the south, the land stretches, a sea of gold and green under a sky that seems to hold more blue than anywhere else on earth. The air itself feels thin and clean, a clarity that sharpens the edges of the horizon and makes the distant silos of farmsteads appear as sharp, metallic teeth against the landscape. Even the shadows, cast long and deep in the late afternoon, seem to have a certain weight, a substance born of endless days of light. This is a place where history is not just written in books, but etched into the very contours of the land. Pawnee Rock once served as a prominent landmark for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail, a beacon in the seemingly endless expanse of the Great Plains. Long before settlers arrived, Native American tribes, including the Pawnee, recognized its significance, a silent sentinel watching over their journeys. Today, the local economy is still deeply rooted in agriculture, the rich soil yielding bountiful harvests of wheat and corn, the lifeblood of Barton County. The rhythm of life in Pawnee Rock is dictated by the seasons, by the planting and the reaping, a steady, enduring pulse that has sustained it for generations.
Live animated radar for Pawnee Rock and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Pawnee Rock, Barton County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 38.265291°N, 98.980929°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67567 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pawnee Rock, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pawnee Rock, Kansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Pawnee Rock includes coordinates 38.265291°N, 98.980929°W, situated in Barton County. ZIP code 67567. Telephone area code: 785. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
