Kansas

Storm History: Comanche County, Kansas

372 episodes, 713 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Comanche 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
713
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$33 million
Episodes
372

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
Hail31000$2.7 million
Tornado22703$516,000
Flash Flood4000$500
Flood3700
Heavy Snow2000
Winter Storm1700
Winter Weather1200
Thunderstorm Wind1000
High Wind1000$10,000
Ice Storm900
Blizzard700
Heavy Rain500
Wildfire400$30 million
Drought200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Strong Wind100$100,000

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 Comanche County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Comanche CountyEvery warning in Comanche 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.