Kansas

Storm History: Hodgeman County, Kansas

437 episodes, 830 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hodgeman 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
830
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Damage
$4.6 million
Episodes
437

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
Hail30200$217,000
Tornado25304$4.1 million
Flash Flood5700
Flood5400$18,000
Thunderstorm Wind4800$217,000
Winter Storm2500
Heavy Snow2300
High Wind1900
Winter Weather1100
Blizzard1000
Ice Storm900
Heavy Rain600
Wildfire400
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Dust Storm200
Strong Wind100

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 Hodgeman County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hodgeman CountyEvery warning in Hodgeman 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.