Kansas

Storm History: Pratt County, Kansas

462 episodes, 1,104 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pratt 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
1,104
Deaths
3
Injuries
10
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
462

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
Tornado432310$23 million
Hail40200$294,000
Flash Flood6600$2.5 million
Flood6000$110,000
Thunderstorm Wind3200$2.1 million
Winter Storm1900$15,000
Heavy Snow1800
High Wind1700$14,000
Winter Weather1300
Heavy Rain1100
Ice Storm1000
Blizzard900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Wildfire300
Dense Fog300
Drought200
Lightning200$20,000
Dust Storm200

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 Pratt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pratt CountyEvery warning in Pratt 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.