Kansas

Storm History: Jackson County, Kansas

421 episodes, 606 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jackson 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
606
Deaths
6
Injuries
20
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
421

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
Hail23300$92,000
Tornado134518$8.2 million
Flash Flood6211$1.5 million
Winter Storm4300
Thunderstorm Wind3200$134,000
Heavy Snow1100
Winter Weather1101
Heat1100
High Wind1000$205,000
Drought1000
Flood900$395,000
Excessive Heat900
Dense Fog800
Ice Storm700
Blizzard700
Cold/Wind Chill400$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning100$2,000

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 Jackson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jackson CountyEvery warning in Jackson 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.