Kansas

Storm History: Cheyenne County, Kansas

613 episodes, 1,142 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cheyenne 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
1,142
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
613

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
Hail45000$679,000
Tornado23100$8.8 million
Flash Flood10400$176,000
Thunderstorm Wind7800$441,000
Drought6300
High Wind5201$47,000
Dust Storm5100$6,000
Blizzard2400$5.5 million
Winter Storm2400$35,000
Heavy Snow1510$25,000
Winter Weather1400$17,000
Wildfire1300$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood300
Heavy Rain200
Ice Storm200
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100
Lightning100$100,000
Excessive Heat100

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 Cheyenne County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cheyenne CountyEvery warning in Cheyenne 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.