Stark, Kansas Weather
Stark, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Stark, Neosho County.
Full aviation weather for Stark is published on the Allen County Airport (KK88) page, 29 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. 6 airfields within reach of Stark 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 Stark: Chanute Martin Johnson Airport (KCNU) 30 km · Tri-City Airport (KPPF) 51 km · Neodesha Municipal Airport (K2K7) 53 km · Yates Center Municipal Airport (K3JA) 56 km · Oswego Municipal Airport (K67) 60 km
Conditions reported at KK88 describe the airfield itself. Weather 29 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Stark specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Stark.
About Stark, Kansas
Stark unfolds across a gentle sweep of southeastern Kansas prairie, where the land rolls with a quiet confidence, hinting at the subtle dips and rises that define its character. It lies 54.3 miles north-west of Joplin, MO (from Joplin, MO: bearing 321°T), and is situated 17.2 miles east of Chanute. The sky here feels impossibly vast, a boundless canvas that shifts from the pale, washed-out blues of midday to the deep, bruised purples and fiery oranges of an approaching dusk, painting the horizon with a raw, untamed beauty. Fields of wheat and soybeans stretch out like a rumpled blanket, their greens and golds catching the light, punctuated by the darker, more rugged patches of native grasses and scattered woodlands that hug the low-lying draws and creek beds, remnants of a wilder past. The air, especially after a summer rain, carries the clean, earthy scent of damp soil and sun-baked vegetation, a perfume unique to this particular stretch of the plains. The history of Stark is tied to the fertile earth and the quiet tenacity of those who have worked it, a story etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring spirit of its people and the subtle shifts of its economy. Once, the whisper of the railroad likely brought a different kind of hum to this place, a promise of connection and commerce that has since softened into the steady, predictable rhythm of agricultural life. Today, the land remains the primary employer, a silent partner in the cultivation of crops that feed and sustain, while the scattered homes and modest businesses speak of a community that values practicality and neighborly connection. There are no grand avenues or bustling marketplaces in Stark, but rather the quiet satisfaction of a day's work done, the slow unfolding of seasons, and the enduring, almost imperceptible, pulse of life on the prairie.
Live animated radar for Stark 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Stark, Neosho County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.690046°N, 95.143033°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66775 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Stark, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Stark, 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 Stark includes coordinates 37.690046°N, 95.143033°W, situated in Neosho County. ZIP code 66775. Telephone area code: 913. 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.
