Kansas

Storm History: Rawlins County, Kansas

632 episodes, 1,097 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Rawlins 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
1,097
Deaths
0
Injuries
16
Damage
$2.8 million
Episodes
632

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
Hail43400$855,000
Tornado25104$1.5 million
Flash Flood7700$72,000
Thunderstorm Wind7200$97,000
Drought6100
High Wind4700$22,000
Dust Storm3900$1,000
Winter Storm2506$165,000
Blizzard2400
Heavy Snow1400
Flood1300$145,000
Wildfire1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather703
Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm300
Lightning203
Funnel Cloud100
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100
Excessive Heat100

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 Rawlins County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Rawlins CountyEvery warning in Rawlins 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.