Kansas

Storm History: Morton County, Kansas

421 episodes, 752 events since 1951

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.

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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
Hail30500$275,000
Tornado14612$2.8 million
High Wind7100$800
Flash Flood5500$50,000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$50,000
Heavy Snow2400
Winter Storm2300
Flood2000
Blizzard1400
Wildfire1300
Heavy Rain1100$250,000
Dust Storm900
Winter Weather800
Ice Storm700
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Dense Fog300
Strong 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 Morton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.