Kansas

Storm History: Chase County, Kansas

312 episodes, 497 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chase 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
497
Deaths
7
Injuries
13
Damage
$10 million
Episodes
312

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
Tornado157010$6.0 million
Hail14000$61,000
Flash Flood4860$438,000
Drought3900
Winter Storm2410$5,000
Thunderstorm Wind2100$45,000
Flood1600$2.0 million
Blizzard800$30,000
High Wind800
Heavy Snow700
Excessive Heat700
Wildfire400
Heat300
Winter Weather300
Ice Storm300$1.9 million
Heavy Rain300
Lightning203$15,000
Frost/Freeze100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
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 Chase County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Chase CountyEvery warning in Chase 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.