Kansas

Storm History: Pawnee County, Kansas

457 episodes, 875 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pawnee 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
875
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$6.7 million
Episodes
457

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
Hail38500$374,000
Tornado26501$2.3 million
Flash Flood4600$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind3704$3.7 million
Flood2900$115,000
Winter Storm2500
Heavy Snow2300
High Wind1600$76,000
Winter Weather1600
Blizzard1200
Ice Storm800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain300
Drought200
Wildfire200
Lightning100$80,000
Strong Wind100$3,000
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 Pawnee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pawnee CountyEvery warning in Pawnee 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.