Kansas

Storm History: Clark County, Kansas

390 episodes, 796 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clark 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
796
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$5.5 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
Hail32800$359,000
Tornado25400$2.1 million
Flood4800$30,000
Flash Flood3600$10,000
Heavy Snow2800
Winter Storm2600
Thunderstorm Wind2000$18,000
High Wind1300
Blizzard1100
Winter Weather1100
Ice Storm700
Heavy Rain600
Wildfire302$3.0 million
Drought200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning100$50,000

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 Clark County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clark CountyEvery warning in Clark 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.