Kansas

Storm History: Barber County, Kansas

476 episodes, 881 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Barber 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
881
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$53 million
Episodes
476

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
Hail40401$862,000
Tornado22202$1.2 million
Flash Flood5400$601,000
High Wind5000$6,000
Thunderstorm Wind3500
Flood2500$20,000
Winter Storm1800
Heavy Snow1800
Winter Weather1500
Blizzard900
Ice Storm700
Heavy Rain600
Wildfire600$30 million
Drought300$20 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill311
Dust Storm300
Sleet100
Lightning101
Dense Fog100

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 Barber County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Barber CountyEvery warning in Barber 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.