Kansas

Storm History: Chautauqua County, Kansas

357 episodes, 591 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chautauqua 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
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$2.1 million
Episodes
357

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.

Open the live radar over Chautauqua County

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
Tornado17100$560,000
Hail14900$107,000
Flash Flood7900$222,000
Drought5000$600,000
Flood4800$400
Thunderstorm Wind2700$15,000
Winter Storm1900$550,000
Heavy Snow1100
Excessive Heat800
Ice Storm700
Heat600
Winter Weather400
Blizzard400$30,000
Heavy Rain200
Wildfire200
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100
Extreme 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 Chautauqua County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Chautauqua CountyEvery warning in Chautauqua 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.