Kansas

Storm History: Marshall County, Kansas

480 episodes, 785 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marshall 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
785
Deaths
2
Injuries
1
Damage
$29 million
Episodes
480

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
Hail28710$417,000
Tornado20601$27 million
Flash Flood8600$231,000
Thunderstorm Wind6300$262,000
Winter Storm4200
Heavy Snow1510$1.6 million
Dense Fog1100
Heat1000
Drought1000
Winter Weather1000
Flood800$15,000
Blizzard700
High Wind700$8,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Ice Storm600
Excessive Heat600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Marshall County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Marshall CountyEvery warning in Marshall 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.