Kansas

Storm History: Grant County, Kansas

409 episodes, 687 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grant 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
687
Deaths
0
Injuries
10
Damage
$7.0 million
Episodes
409

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
Hail30700$43,000
Tornado14408$5.8 million
Flash Flood4400
Thunderstorm Wind3402$1.1 million
High Wind2700$75,000
Heavy Snow2600
Flood2300
Winter Storm2100
Winter Weather1600
Blizzard1100
Ice Storm700
Dust Storm600$1,000
Heavy Rain500
Wildfire500
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Dense Fog300
Lightning100
Dust Devil100

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 Grant County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Grant CountyEvery warning in Grant 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.