Kansas

Storm History: Finney County, Kansas

731 episodes, 1,633 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Finney 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
1,633
Deaths
2
Injuries
44
Damage
$101 million
Episodes
731

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
Hail62512$3.6 million
Tornado474142$42 million
High Wind14400$517,000
Thunderstorm Wind10400$277,000
Flash Flood10400$54 million
Winter Storm3400
Heavy Snow3000
Flood2700
Winter Weather2400
Wildfire1600$75,000
Blizzard1300
Ice Storm900
Dust Storm800
Heavy Rain700
Dense Fog600
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill100
Strong Wind100

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 Finney County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Finney CountyEvery warning in Finney 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.