Kansas

Storm History: Gove County, Kansas

534 episodes, 976 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gove 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
976
Deaths
2
Injuries
13
Damage
$29 million
Episodes
534

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
Hail31001$247,000
Tornado30603$10 million
Flash Flood9700$144,000
Drought4800
Thunderstorm Wind4000$357,000
High Wind3700$42,000
Dust Storm3102$35,000
Winter Storm2010$18 million
Blizzard1710
Flood1600$491,000
Heavy Snow1501$25,000
Wildfire1300$83,000
Winter Weather1006$55,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm200
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100

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 Gove County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gove CountyEvery warning in Gove 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.