Storm History: Jefferson County, Kansas
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jefferson 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
- 1,014
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 24
- Damage
- $37 million
- Episodes
- 554
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 366 | 1 | 3 | $2.0 million |
| Tornado | 210 | 0 | 11 | $30 million |
| Flash Flood | 185 | 0 | 8 | $3.4 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 92 | 0 | 2 | $396,000 |
| Winter Storm | 48 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Flood | 17 | 0 | 0 | $800,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 11 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Drought | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 10 | 1 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Flash Flood, October 1, 2005
- Hail, May 18, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2002
- Hail, June 29, 1998
- Flood, October 2, 2005
- Tornado, June 5, 1996
- Tornado, September 21, 1993
- Tornado, May 19, 1960
- Tornado, March 13, 1990
- Flash Flood, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood, September 23, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 1996
- Flash Flood, June 13, 1999
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2007
- Tornado, May 11, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 1997
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2005
- Hail, June 14, 2004
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2011
- Hail, April 14, 2001
- Hail, May 5, 1986
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2008
- Hail, June 30, 2023
- Hail, December 15, 2021
- Hail, September 9, 1992
- Hail, June 13, 2024
- Flash Flood, September 18, 2010
- Hail, June 7, 1982
- Hail, July 22, 2017
- Hail, August 19, 2011
- Hail, June 24, 1989
- Hail, May 4, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2019
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 13, 1990
- Tornado, April 26, 1991
- Tornado, April 2, 1956
- Tornado, May 19, 1960
- Tornado, May 7, 1961
- Tornado, August 6, 1962
- Tornado, March 26, 1991
- Tornado, May 11, 1966
- Tornado, June 6, 1971
- Tornado, May 31, 1978
- Tornado, June 19, 1981
- Tornado, April 26, 1984
- Tornado, May 21, 2011
- Tornado, May 31, 1951
- Tornado, March 18, 1954
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 13, 2026
- Tornado, June 8, 2026
- Tornado, May 18, 2026
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2026
- Tornado, April 23, 2026
- Tornado, April 17, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2025
- Hail, April 23, 2025
- Blizzard, March 4, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2025
- Blizzard, January 4, 2025
- Hail, October 24, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 21, 2024
- Flood, August 27, 2024
- Tornado, August 14, 2024
- Hail, July 31, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2024
- Hail, June 13, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 2024
- Tornado, May 19, 2024
- Tornado, March 13, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 8, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 25, 2023
- Hail, September 16, 2023
- Hail, July 30, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2023
- Hail, July 4, 2023
- Hail, June 30, 2023
- Hail, June 5, 2023
- Tornado, April 19, 2023
- Hail, April 14, 2023
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- High Wind, March 31, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2022
- Hail, June 21, 2022
- Tornado, June 7, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2022
- Hail, May 15, 2022
- Tornado, April 29, 2022
- Tornado, March 29, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2022
- Hail, December 15, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2021
- Hail, June 11, 2021
- Hail, May 8, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 2020
- Hail, May 4, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 11, 2020
- Ice Storm, January 10, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2019
- High Wind, January 28, 2019
- Blizzard, November 25, 2018
- Hail, July 19, 2018
- Tornado, June 30, 2018
- Hail, June 30, 2018
- Hail, June 11, 2018
- Hail, September 16, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2017
- Hail, July 22, 2017
- Hail, June 17, 2017
- Tornado, June 16, 2017
- Hail, June 14, 2017
- Tornado, May 18, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2016
- Hail, July 13, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2016
- Tornado, May 26, 2016
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2015
- Hail, October 1, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 6, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 4, 2014
- Hail, May 10, 2014
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2013
- Hail, November 16, 2013
- Tornado, May 27, 2013
- Tornado, May 19, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 17, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 23, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Hail, September 3, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Hail, July 8, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 3, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 24, 2012
- Drought, June 19, 2012
- Tornado, April 27, 2012
- Hail, September 9, 2011
- Heat, August 23, 2011
- Hail, August 19, 2011
- Hail, August 18, 2011
- Heat, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 30, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 26, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 14, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 10, 2011
- Flood, June 26, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 21, 2011
- Hail, April 22, 2011
- Hail, April 3, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2011
- Flash Flood, September 18, 2010
- Hail, August 20, 2010
- Hail, August 13, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 9, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 2, 2010
- Excessive Heat, July 22, 2010
- Excessive Heat, July 19, 2010
- Tornado, July 4, 2010
- Hail, June 20, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2010
- Hail, May 30, 2010
- Hail, May 6, 2010
- Hail, April 6, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 19, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2010
- Blizzard, December 24, 2009
- Flood, August 16, 2009
- Hail, June 9, 2009
- Hail, April 26, 2009
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2009
- Hail, April 25, 2009
- High Wind, March 23, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 9, 2009
- Ice Storm, December 26, 2008
- Hail, July 2, 2008
- Hail, June 15, 2008
- Tornado, June 12, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 8, 2008
- Tornado, June 5, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2008
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2008
- Tornado, May 1, 2008
- Hail, April 10, 2008
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 10, 2007
- Winter Weather, November 23, 2007
- Flash Flood, October 13, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 30, 2007
- Heat, August 20, 2007
- Hail, August 16, 2007
- Heat, August 6, 2007
- Hail, July 4, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 7, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2007
- Tornado, May 1, 2007
- Cold/Wind Chill, April 4, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2007
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2007
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2007
- Winter Storm, November 29, 2006
- Dense Fog, November 6, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 25, 2006
- Hail, August 6, 2006
- Heat, August 6, 2006
- Heat, August 1, 2006
- Heat, July 29, 2006
- Heat, July 16, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2006
- Hail, April 23, 2006
- Tornado, April 15, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Winter Weather, March 20, 2006
- Hail, March 12, 2006
- Hail, March 7, 2006
- Dense Fog, December 29, 2005
- Dense Fog, December 25, 2005
- Winter Weather, December 17, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2005
- Winter Weather, November 28, 2005
- Tornado, November 27, 2005
- Flood, October 2, 2005
- Flash Flood, October 1, 2005
- Flash Flood, September 23, 2005
- Dense Fog, September 16, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2005
- Dense Fog, July 1, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2005
- Tornado, June 8, 2005
- Tornado, June 4, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2005
- Tornado, April 21, 2005
- Hail, April 11, 2005
- Winter Weather, February 8, 2005
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2005
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2004
- Winter Storm, November 23, 2004
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2004
- Hail, August 25, 2004
- Flood, August 24, 2004
- Tornado, August 23, 2004
- Hail, July 11, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2004
- Hail, July 4, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2004
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Hail, June 12, 2004
- Hail, June 12, 2004
- Hail, June 12, 2004
- Hail, June 11, 2004
- Hail, May 29, 2004
- Hail, May 24, 2004
- Hail, May 24, 2004
- Flash Flood, April 30, 2004
- Dense Fog, February 17, 2004
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Jefferson CountyEvery warning in Jefferson 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.