Kansas

Storm History: Atchison County, Kansas

285 episodes, 386 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Atchison County, Kansas: 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
386
Deaths
0
Injuries
12
Damage
$29 million
Episodes
285

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
Hail12900$1.4 million
Tornado68010$27 million
Flood3900$660,000
Flash Flood3600
Thunderstorm Wind2700$64,000
Drought1800
Winter Storm1700
Heat1200
Winter Weather900
Ice Storm802$260,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Blizzard500
Heavy Snow400
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
High Wind200
Frost/Freeze100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Atchison County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Atchison CountyEvery warning in Atchison County since 1986Every county in Kansas

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.