Temperature and Precipitation Records for the Tri-State Area

Top Ten Climate Records for the Tri-State Area

Top Ten Coldest Temperatures	Top Ten Warmest Temperatures
-38 Culbertson, Nebraska (12FEB1899)	118 Atwood, Kansas (24JUL1936)
-34 Atwood, Kansas (22-23DEC1989)	118 Dresden, Kansas (24JUL1936)
-34 Culbertson, Nebraska (22-23DEC1989)	117 Hill City, Kansas (24JUL1936)
-34 Benkelman, Nebraska (22 DEC1989)	116 Dresden, Kansas (25JUL1940)
-33 Benkelman, Nebraska (23DEC1989)	116 Norton, Kansas (24JUL1936)
-33 Brewster, Kansas (22-23DEC1989)	115 Norton, Kansas (25JUL1940)
-33 Wray, Colorado (22-23DEC1989)	115 Dresden, Kansas (25JUL1936)
-33 Yuma, Coloaro (22DEC1989)	115 Dreden, Kansas (13JUL1934)
-32 Wray, Colorado (12FEB1889)	115 Hill City, Kansas (25JUL1940)
-32 Colby, Kansas (22DEC1989)	115 Hill City, Kansas (06AUG1934)
-32 Kit Carson, Colorado (28JAN1948 / 05JAN1942)	115 Hill City, Kansas (13JUL1934)
-32 Oberlin, Kansas (11JAN1918)

Top 10 Wettest Days (Inches of Rain)*	Top 10 Snowiest Days (Inches of Snow)
8.00 Stratton, Colorado (23AUG1969)	24.0 Norcatur, Kansas (25OCT1997)
7.51 Gove, Kansas (26JUN1996)	23.0 Palisade, Nebraska (30MAR1949)
7.43 Hill City, Kansas (17SEP1919)	21.5 Lenora, Kansas (25OCT1997)
6.92 Quinter, Kansas (25JUL1999)	21.3 Wallace, Kansas (01DEC1919)
6.60 Wray, Colorado (27APR1947)	20.0 Saint Francis, Kansas (28MAR1980)
6.46 Tribune, Kansas (04JUN1932)	20.0 Densmore, Kansas (25OCT1997)
6.20 Benkelman, Nebrask (17JUL1924)	20.0 Hoxie, Kansas (28FEB1939)
6.16 Trenton, Nebraska (18JUL1981)	20.0 Winona, Kansas (25OCT1997)
6.09 Norton, Kansas (20JUL1953)	19.4 Stratton, Colorado (25OCT1997)
6.00 Benkelman, Nebraska (07SEP1901)	19.3 Gove, Kansas (11APR1953)
	19.3 Goodland, Kansas (25OCT1997)

*These rainfall measurements are from official observing stations only. There are several unofficial reports of rain in excess of eight inches in eastern Colorado on May 30, 1935, which helped produce the Republican River flood. These data are included here:

Unofficial Rainfall Records from May 30, 1935 (Inches)

24.00 5 miles southwest of Bonny Reservoir, Colorado

18.00 6 miles south southeast of Idalia, Colorado

15.00 5 miles north northeast of Seibert, Colorado

12.88 5 miles south southeast of Idalia, Colorado

12.00 10 miles east northeast of Idalia, Colorado

10.00 3 miles southeast of Idalia, Colorado