Storm History: Atchison County, Kansas
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 129 | 0 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| Tornado | 68 | 0 | 10 | $27 million |
| Flood | 39 | 0 | 0 | $660,000 |
| Flash Flood | 36 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 27 | 0 | 0 | $64,000 |
| Drought | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 8 | 0 | 2 | $260,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Tornado, May 6, 1993
- Flood, March 13, 2019
- Flood, June 19, 2001
- Tornado, March 8, 1974
- Tornado, October 18, 1979
- Tornado, October 21, 1979
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Ice Storm, January 30, 2002
- Hail, March 12, 2006
- Tornado, October 8, 1997
- Ice Storm, December 10, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 25, 2000
- Tornado, November 15, 1988
- Tornado, April 20, 1964
- Tornado, September 13, 1965
- Tornado, May 28, 1982
- Tornado, April 27, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2000
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 19, 2011
- Hail, September 9, 1992
- Hail, June 16, 1985
- Hail, March 13, 2024
- Hail, May 18, 2017
- Hail, May 7, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2001
- Hail, May 26, 2000
- Tornado, July 4, 1995
- Hail, August 30, 1980
- Hail, June 26, 2011
- Hail, June 29, 1965
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2016
- Hail, April 8, 2015
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Tornado, May 7, 1961
- Tornado, May 4, 2003
- Tornado, May 28, 2019
- Tornado, July 15, 1956
- Tornado, April 10, 1965
- Tornado, June 11, 1967
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Tornado, October 12, 1961
- Tornado, April 20, 1964
- Tornado, April 30, 1973
- Tornado, March 7, 1974
- Tornado, March 8, 1974
- Tornado, April 20, 1974
- Tornado, October 18, 1979
Every episode, newest first
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2025
- Hail, May 31, 2025
- Hail, May 19, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Hail, October 24, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 2024
- Hail, March 13, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 14, 2023
- Heat, August 19, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 14, 2023
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 18, 2022
- Hail, May 30, 2022
- Hail, December 15, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 12, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2020
- Hail, April 11, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2019
- Flood, June 1, 2019
- Tornado, May 28, 2019
- Tornado, May 21, 2019
- Hail, May 14, 2019
- Flood, May 1, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 30, 2019
- Flood, April 1, 2019
- Flood, March 13, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2019
- High Wind, January 28, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2019
- Blizzard, November 25, 2018
- Drought, October 1, 2018
- Drought, September 1, 2018
- Hail, August 31, 2018
- Drought, August 1, 2018
- Drought, July 1, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2018
- Hail, June 11, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2017
- Flood, June 30, 2017
- Hail, June 15, 2017
- Hail, May 18, 2017
- Hail, April 15, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Hail, February 28, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2016
- Hail, April 27, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 27, 2015
- High Wind, November 11, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2015
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Hail, March 23, 2015
- Flood, October 9, 2014
- Hail, July 7, 2014
- Hail, June 22, 2014
- Hail, May 10, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Ice Storm, December 21, 2013
- Hail, November 16, 2013
- Hail, October 30, 2013
- Hail, June 27, 2013
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 2013
- Winter Weather, May 2, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 29, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Blizzard, December 20, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Hail, August 8, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Hail, May 24, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 13, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 19, 2011
- Hail, August 19, 2011
- Hail, August 7, 2011
- Hail, June 26, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2011
- Hail, May 24, 2011
- Tornado, May 21, 2011
- Hail, April 8, 2011
- Hail, April 3, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 10, 2011
- Flash Flood, September 21, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2010
- Hail, May 7, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 19, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2010
- Blizzard, December 24, 2009
- Blizzard, December 7, 2009
- Hail, June 17, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2009
- Hail, June 8, 2008
- Tornado, June 5, 2008
- Flood, May 31, 2008
- Flood, May 22, 2008
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 10, 2007
- Flash Flood, October 15, 2007
- Hail, October 13, 2007
- Hail, September 6, 2007
- Tornado, August 24, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 6, 2007
- Flood, May 25, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2007
- Flood, April 15, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 4, 2007
- Ice Storm, November 29, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 6, 2006
- Heat, August 1, 2006
- Heat, July 29, 2006
- Heat, July 16, 2006
- Hail, June 5, 2006
- Hail, May 2, 2006
- Hail, March 30, 2006
- Hail, March 12, 2006
- Winter Weather, January 20, 2006
- Flash Flood, October 2, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2005
- Heat, July 21, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2005
- Tornado, April 21, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 4, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2004
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2004
- Hail, May 29, 2004
- Hail, May 24, 2004
- Flood, May 24, 2004
- Hail, February 29, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2003
- Hail, August 26, 2003
- Heat, July 14, 2003
- Tornado, May 8, 2003
- Tornado, May 4, 2003
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2003
- Hail, June 11, 2002
- Tornado, April 27, 2002
- Hail, March 8, 2002
- Ice Storm, January 30, 2002
- Heat, August 9, 2001
- Heat, August 1, 2001
- Heat, July 17, 2001
- Flood, July 12, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2001
- Flood, June 19, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 22, 2001
- Flood, May 3, 2001
- Hail, April 20, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 10, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 6, 2000
- Heat, September 1, 2000
- Heat, August 22, 2000
- Hail, August 19, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2000
- Hail, June 1, 2000
- Hail, May 26, 2000
- Tornado, May 11, 2000
- Hail, March 26, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 25, 2000
- Heavy Snow, December 5, 1999
- Flood, August 9, 1999
- Heat, July 18, 1999
- Flood, July 1, 1999
- Flood, June 27, 1999
- Flood, June 14, 1999
- Flood, May 21, 1999
- Flood, May 17, 1999
- Flood, April 27, 1999
- Flood, April 15, 1999
- Flood, November 1, 1998
- Flood, October 17, 1998
- Hail, September 27, 1998
- Hail, June 29, 1998
- Hail, June 20, 1998
- Flood, June 13, 1998
- Hail, June 4, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 15, 1998
- Hail, April 13, 1998
- Hail, March 30, 1998
- Ice Storm, January 4, 1998
- Ice Storm, December 21, 1997
- Tornado, October 8, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 1997
- Hail, July 1, 1997
- Flood, June 25, 1997
- Hail, May 16, 1997
- Flood, May 1, 1997
- Flood, April 10, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 10, 1997
- Flood, November 17, 1996
- Flood, August 7, 1996
- Flood, July 20, 1996
- Flood, June 23, 1996
- Hail, June 23, 1996
- Flood, June 6, 1996
- Hail, June 5, 1996
- Flood, June 1, 1996
- Flood, May 27, 1996
- Hail, May 26, 1996
- Flood, May 24, 1996
- Flood, May 10, 1996
- Hail, May 10, 1996
- Flood, May 8, 1996
- Hail, May 8, 1996
- Hail, July 22, 1995
- Tornado, July 4, 1995
- Tornado, July 1, 1994
- Tornado, May 6, 1993
- Hail, September 9, 1992
- Tornado, September 5, 1992
- Tornado, July 29, 1992
- Tornado, July 9, 1992
- Hail, July 22, 1991
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Hail, July 10, 1989
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.