Kansas

Storm History: Brown County, Kansas

390 episodes, 591 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brown 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
591
Deaths
4
Injuries
13
Damage
$8.7 million
Episodes
390

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
Hail20623$650,000
Tornado14409$5.8 million
Flash Flood5800$2.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind4800$118,000
Winter Storm3701$23,000
Winter Weather1210
Heavy Snow1010
Heat1000
Drought1000
High Wind900$26,000
Dense Fog900
Blizzard700
Flood700
Excessive Heat700
Ice Storm500
Cold/Wind Chill400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning200
Funnel Cloud200

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 Brown County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brown CountyEvery warning in Brown 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.