Kansas

Storm History: Linn County, Kansas

289 episodes, 404 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Linn 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
404
Deaths
4
Injuries
3
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
289

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
Hail13100$121,000
Flash Flood5900$5,000
Tornado5503$1.4 million
Flood3200$9.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind3100$181,000
Drought2100
Winter Storm1940$1,000
Heat1400
Ice Storm1100$5,000
Heavy Snow900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Winter Weather600
Blizzard300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100

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 Linn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Linn CountyEvery warning in Linn 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.