Kansas

Storm History: Logan County, Kansas

645 episodes, 1,097 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Logan 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
1,097
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Damage
$6.5 million
Episodes
645

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
Hail38110$2.0 million
Tornado28600$809,000
Flash Flood10400$30,000
Thunderstorm Wind6100$71,000
Drought5900
High Wind4600$66,000
Dust Storm4400$61,000
Blizzard2200
Flood1800
Heavy Snow1700
Winter Storm1700$3.5 million
Winter Weather1205
Wildfire1202$8,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Cold/Wind Chill500
Frost/Freeze200
Ice Storm200
Excessive Heat100
Lightning100$1,000

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 Logan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Logan CountyEvery warning in Logan 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.