Kansas

Storm History: Dickinson County, Kansas

591 episodes, 1,041 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dickinson 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
1,041
Deaths
8
Injuries
23
Damage
$57 million
Episodes
591

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
Hail38400$745,000
Tornado301117$53 million
Flash Flood11311$2.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind7000$270,000
Winter Storm4412
Flood1900$604,000
High Wind1700$210,000
Winter Weather1452
Heat1100
Drought1100
Heavy Snow1000$10,000
Dense Fog901
Ice Storm800
Excessive Heat700
Lightning600$61,000
Blizzard500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Strong Wind300$30,000
Funnel Cloud200

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 Dickinson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dickinson CountyEvery warning in Dickinson 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.