Kansas

Storm History: Greenwood County, Kansas

399 episodes, 678 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greenwood 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
678
Deaths
1
Injuries
20
Damage
$60 million
Episodes
399

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
Tornado245118$29 million
Hail17000$300,000
Flash Flood6800$105,000
Flood4900$522,000
Drought4200$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind2500$34,000
Winter Storm2300$250,000
Heavy Snow1200$18,000
Ice Storm700$27 million
Excessive Heat700
Winter Weather602$30,000
Blizzard600$2.0 million
Heat500
Wildfire500
Heavy Rain400
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
High 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 Greenwood County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Greenwood CountyEvery warning in Greenwood 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.