Kansas

Storms in Kansas in 1958

209 events in 50 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Kansas in 1958, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Kansas in 1958 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Kansas

The year

Events
209
Deaths
15
Injuries
24
Damage
$3.1 million
Episodes
50

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind8300
Hail7700
Tornado491524$3.1 million

Every episode, month by month

April 1958

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June 1958

July 1958

August 1958

September 1958

October 1958

November 1958

More

Every year in KansasEvery state in 1958Tornadoes in Kansas in 195819571959

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.