Colorado

Storm History: Sedgwick County, Colorado

293 episodes, 436 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sedgwick County, Colorado: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
436
Deaths
2
Injuries
12
Damage
$1.6 million
Episodes
293

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail13800
Tornado129210$358,000
High Wind5802$751,000
Winter Storm2500
Blizzard2400
Flash Flood1900$415,000
Thunderstorm Wind1800$5,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather400
Heavy Snow300
Wildfire300
Drought200
Lightning100
Flood100$100,000
Frost/Freeze100
Dust Storm100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Sedgwick County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sedgwick CountyEvery warning in Sedgwick County since 1986Every county in Colorado

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.