Kansas

Storm History: Meade County, Kansas

451 episodes, 858 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Meade 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
858
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$10 million
Episodes
451

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
Hail36800$1.9 million
Tornado27100$8.0 million
Flash Flood5100$1,000
Thunderstorm Wind2900
Flood2700$8,000
Heavy Snow2400
Winter Storm2300
High Wind1800$101,000
Winter Weather1400
Blizzard1000
Ice Storm800
Heavy Rain500
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Wildfire300$125,000
Dust Storm100

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 Meade County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Meade CountyEvery warning in Meade 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.