Storm History: Morton County, Kansas
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Morton 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
- 752
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $3.4 million
- Episodes
- 421
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 305 | 0 | 0 | $275,000 |
| Tornado | 146 | 1 | 2 | $2.8 million |
| High Wind | 71 | 0 | 0 | $800 |
| Flash Flood | 55 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 36 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 24 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 11 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Dust Storm | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 18, 1977
- Hail, May 31, 1996
- Heavy Rain, August 15, 2006
- Tornado, April 6, 2001
- Tornado, April 15, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 1996
- Flash Flood, August 25, 1998
- Tornado, June 23, 1951
- Tornado, May 9, 1972
- Tornado, June 26, 1978
- Hail, June 6, 2005
- Hail, June 26, 1995
- Tornado, April 26, 1951
- Tornado, August 7, 1951
- High Wind, December 18, 2000
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 episode, newest first
- High Wind, March 15, 2026
- Wildfire, February 17, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2026
- Dense Fog, November 20, 2025
- Dense Fog, October 14, 2025
- Tornado, August 3, 2025
- Hail, June 2, 2025
- Hail, May 19, 2025
- Dense Fog, April 30, 2025
- Blizzard, March 17, 2025
- Dust Storm, March 14, 2025
- Winter Weather, March 8, 2025
- High Wind, March 4, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 20, 2025
- Hail, August 3, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2024
- Hail, July 16, 2024
- Hail, June 14, 2024
- Hail, June 7, 2024
- Hail, May 28, 2024
- Hail, April 25, 2024
- High Wind, April 18, 2024
- Hail, April 15, 2024
- High Wind, April 6, 2024
- Blizzard, January 8, 2024
- Blizzard, January 4, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 25, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 2, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2023
- Hail, July 7, 2023
- Tornado, June 23, 2023
- Hail, June 17, 2023
- Hail, June 9, 2023
- Dust Storm, April 19, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 13, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 31, 2023
- High Wind, March 30, 2023
- High Wind, February 21, 2023
- High Wind, February 14, 2023
- High Wind, January 11, 2023
- High Wind, December 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2022
- Wildfire, October 23, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2022
- Hail, June 6, 2022
- Hail, June 5, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 2022
- Hail, May 10, 2022
- Hail, April 29, 2022
- Hail, April 22, 2022
- High Wind, April 12, 2022
- High Wind, April 6, 2022
- High Wind, March 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 17, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2022
- High Wind, December 26, 2021
- Wildfire, December 15, 2021
- High Wind, October 27, 2021
- Flood, September 3, 2021
- Hail, August 7, 2021
- Hail, July 18, 2021
- Hail, July 4, 2021
- Hail, June 25, 2021
- Hail, May 15, 2021
- Hail, April 6, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 4, 2021
- Dust Storm, January 14, 2021
- High Wind, December 23, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 12, 2020
- Dust Storm, October 11, 2020
- Hail, August 14, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2020
- High Wind, June 9, 2020
- Tornado, May 21, 2020
- Hail, May 21, 2020
- Hail, April 18, 2020
- High Wind, March 19, 2020
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2019
- Hail, August 13, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2019
- Hail, June 25, 2019
- Hail, June 25, 2019
- Hail, June 14, 2019
- Hail, May 31, 2019
- Tornado, May 6, 2019
- High Wind, March 12, 2019
- Blizzard, December 27, 2018
- High Wind, December 13, 2018
- Blizzard, November 25, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 11, 2018
- Flood, July 29, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 28, 2018
- Hail, July 22, 2018
- Hail, July 19, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2018
- Hail, June 12, 2018
- Flood, May 28, 2018
- High Wind, April 18, 2018
- Wildfire, April 17, 2018
- High Wind, April 17, 2018
- Hail, September 22, 2017
- Hail, August 27, 2017
- Hail, August 17, 2017
- Hail, August 10, 2017
- Heavy Rain, July 29, 2017
- Hail, June 29, 2017
- Hail, May 27, 2017
- Hail, May 15, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 9, 2017
- Blizzard, April 29, 2017
- Hail, March 23, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 13, 2017
- Tornado, December 25, 2016
- Hail, June 25, 2016
- Hail, June 6, 2016
- High Wind, May 10, 2016
- Tornado, April 15, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 5, 2016
- High Wind, March 2, 2016
- Ice Storm, November 26, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 17, 2015
- Tornado, November 16, 2015
- Flood, September 10, 2015
- Hail, July 19, 2015
- Tornado, May 7, 2015
- Tornado, April 11, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 29, 2014
- Hail, August 7, 2014
- Hail, July 14, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2014
- Hail, May 22, 2014
- High Wind, February 20, 2014
- Heavy Snow, November 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 14, 2013
- Flood, August 7, 2013
- Tornado, July 25, 2013
- Hail, June 24, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2013
- Hail, June 7, 2013
- Tornado, June 4, 2013
- Hail, March 29, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 31, 2012
- Hail, October 12, 2012
- Hail, September 26, 2012
- Hail, August 23, 2012
- Hail, August 3, 2012
- Flood, July 8, 2012
- Hail, April 26, 2012
- High Wind, January 22, 2012
- Blizzard, December 19, 2011
- Tornado, October 7, 2011
- Hail, September 16, 2011
- Hail, August 7, 2011
- Hail, June 11, 2011
- Hail, June 3, 2011
- Hail, June 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- High Wind, April 15, 2011
- Flood, July 4, 2010
- Hail, June 22, 2010
- Hail, June 21, 2010
- Flood, May 18, 2010
- Tornado, April 22, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2010
- Hail, August 25, 2009
- Hail, August 18, 2009
- Hail, August 12, 2009
- Hail, June 13, 2009
- High Wind, April 4, 2009
- Blizzard, March 27, 2009
- High Wind, February 17, 2009
- Heavy Rain, August 18, 2008
- Hail, August 12, 2008
- Hail, July 18, 2008
- Hail, June 23, 2008
- Hail, June 22, 2008
- Tornado, June 18, 2008
- Tornado, May 26, 2008
- Hail, May 5, 2008
- Hail, April 23, 2008
- Strong Wind, April 15, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2008
- Winter Weather, December 27, 2007
- Blizzard, December 22, 2007
- Heavy Snow, December 14, 2007
- Blizzard, December 10, 2007
- Winter Weather, November 23, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 29, 2007
- Hail, September 15, 2007
- Tornado, June 19, 2007
- Hail, June 9, 2007
- Tornado, May 31, 2007
- Winter Storm, April 12, 2007
- High Wind, February 24, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2006
- Ice Storm, December 18, 2006
- High Wind, November 14, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 21, 2006
- Heavy Rain, August 15, 2006
- Heavy Rain, August 14, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2006
- Hail, July 9, 2006
- Flood, July 8, 2006
- Tornado, June 22, 2006
- Hail, June 21, 2006
- Tornado, June 16, 2006
- Hail, June 15, 2006
- High Wind, April 7, 2006
- High Wind, March 30, 2006
- Blizzard, March 19, 2006
- High Wind, March 12, 2006
- High Wind, December 27, 2005
- Hail, August 23, 2005
- Tornado, July 3, 2005
- Hail, July 1, 2005
- Hail, June 26, 2005
- Hail, June 6, 2005
- Tornado, May 30, 2005
- Hail, May 24, 2005
- Tornado, April 5, 2005
- Heavy Snow, March 26, 2005
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2005
- Heavy Snow, January 30, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2005
- Winter Storm, November 29, 2004
- Flood, August 10, 2004
- Hail, August 9, 2004
- Heavy Rain, August 5, 2004
- Hail, July 8, 2004
- Hail, July 2, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2004
- Hail, June 20, 2004
- Hail, June 17, 2004
- Hail, June 16, 2004
- Hail, June 15, 2004
- Hail, June 4, 2004
- Hail, May 10, 2004
- Heavy Snow, January 25, 2004
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 9, 2003
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Morton CountyEvery warning in Morton 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.