Kansas

Storm History: Bourbon County, Kansas

415 episodes, 561 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bourbon 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
561
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$79 million
Episodes
415

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
Hail16900$33 million
Flash Flood11900$2.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind9300$1.4 million
Tornado6500$1.4 million
Drought3900$36 million
Winter Storm1900$125,000
Heat900
Ice Storm900$605,000
High Wind700$63,000
Flood700$200,000
Winter Weather700$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Heavy Snow500$25,000
Frost/Freeze300$4.0 million
Funnel Cloud100
Blizzard100
Wildfire100$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Bourbon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bourbon CountyEvery warning in Bourbon 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.