Kansas

Storm History: Jewell County, Kansas

491 episodes, 748 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jewell 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
748
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Damage
$121 million
Episodes
491

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
Hail30300$54 million
Tornado18704$33 million
Thunderstorm Wind5400$2.3 million
Winter Storm4800$4.0 million
Drought4300$25 million
Winter Weather3110
Flash Flood1900$1.4 million
High Wind1800$20,000
Blizzard1400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Snow500$10,000
Ice Storm400$400,000
Flood300$265,000
Wildfire300$10,000
Frost/Freeze200$250,000
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100
Heat100

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 Jewell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jewell CountyEvery warning in Jewell 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.