Kansas

Storm History: Graham County, Kansas

547 episodes, 892 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Graham 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
892
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
547

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
Hail31900$484,000
Tornado21701$9.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind8000$98,000
Flash Flood7300$538,000
Drought5900
High Wind3500$10,000
Dust Storm2700$25,000
Winter Storm2000$21 million
Blizzard1600
Wildfire1300$50,000
Heavy Snow1000
Winter Weather600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood300
Frost/Freeze200
Ice Storm200

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 Graham County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Graham CountyEvery warning in Graham 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.