Kansas

Storm History: Coffey County, Kansas

446 episodes, 657 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Coffey 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
657
Deaths
3
Injuries
36
Damage
$8.4 million
Episodes
446

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
Hail24900$1.2 million
Tornado119023$3.2 million
Flash Flood8000$2.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind5603$60,000
Winter Storm3601$1.0 million
Heavy Snow1500
Dense Fog1500
Heat1200
Winter Weather1119$9,000
Drought1100
Flood900$600,000
Excessive Heat900
High Wind800
Ice Storm700$230,000
Cold/Wind Chill400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard400
Lightning320$80,000
Funnel Cloud200
Heavy Rain100
Strong Wind100$15,000
Sleet100

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 Coffey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Coffey CountyEvery warning in Coffey 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.