Kansas

Storm History: Kiowa County, Kansas

417 episodes, 744 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kiowa 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
744
Deaths
11
Injuries
75
Damage
$256 million
Episodes
417

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
Hail27000$110,000
Tornado2621174$251 million
Flood3600
Flash Flood2800$112,000
Heavy Snow2700
Winter Storm2400$5,000
Thunderstorm Wind2300$4.6 million
High Wind1701$35,000
Winter Weather1300
Blizzard1200
Ice Storm1200
Heavy Rain1100
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Wildfire300

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 Kiowa County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kiowa CountyEvery warning in Kiowa 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.