Kansas

Storm History: Harper County, Kansas

484 episodes, 857 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Harper 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
857
Deaths
0
Injuries
16
Damage
$25 million
Episodes
484

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
Tornado29802$11 million
Hail26200$463,000
Flash Flood7400$1.4 million
Drought5600$10 million
Thunderstorm Wind5400$17,000
Flood3405$2.0 million
Winter Storm2504$30,000
Heavy Snow1101$13,000
High Wind900$30,000
Winter Weather904$47,000
Blizzard600$250,000
Excessive Heat500
Ice Storm400
Heat400
Lightning100$25,000
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100
Strong Wind100$200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
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 Harper County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Harper CountyEvery warning in Harper 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.