Kansas

Storm History: Gray County, Kansas

506 episodes, 1,002 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gray 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
1,002
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
506

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
Hail40000$1.4 million
Tornado32103$8.4 million
Flash Flood6900$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind4200$304,000
Winter Storm3400
Flood2800$2.2 million
High Wind2700$4,000
Heavy Snow2300
Winter Weather1800
Blizzard1300
Ice Storm900
Wildfire600
Heavy Rain400
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Strong Wind200
Dust Storm100

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 Gray County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gray CountyEvery warning in Gray 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.