Kansas

Storm History: Lane County, Kansas

370 episodes, 612 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lane 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
612
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$3.2 million
Episodes
370

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
Hail24400$2.7 million
Tornado16502$163,000
Flash Flood3300
Winter Storm2900
Thunderstorm Wind2401$303,000
High Wind2400$5,000
Heavy Snow2400
Flood1900
Blizzard1300
Winter Weather1100
Ice Storm900
Wildfire600$90,000
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain300
Cold/Wind Chill100
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 Lane County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lane CountyEvery warning in Lane 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.