Kansas

Storm History: Decatur County, Kansas

510 episodes, 813 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Decatur 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
813
Deaths
0
Injuries
7
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
510

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
Hail30801$1.1 million
Tornado20305$8.4 million
Drought6100
Flash Flood4300$89,000
Thunderstorm Wind4100$374,000
High Wind3200$56,000
Dust Storm2900$500
Winter Storm2300$2.7 million
Blizzard1800
Flood1300
Heavy Snow1200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Winter Weather600
Wildfire600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm300
Lightning201
Excessive Heat100

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 Decatur County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Decatur CountyEvery warning in Decatur 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.