Kansas

Storm History: Nemaha County, Kansas

413 episodes, 650 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nemaha 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
650
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
413

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
Hail21900$894,000
Tornado16703$10 million
Flash Flood7800$599,000
Thunderstorm Wind5100$144,000
Winter Storm3700
Heavy Snow1400$20,000
Winter Weather1100
Heat1000
Drought1000
Flood900$4,000
High Wind800$1,000
Dense Fog800
Blizzard700
Excessive Heat700
Ice Storm500
Cold/Wind Chill400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning100

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 Nemaha County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Nemaha CountyEvery warning in Nemaha 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.