Kansas

Storm History: Reno County, Kansas

714 episodes, 1,630 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Reno 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
1,630
Deaths
12
Injuries
67
Damage
$149 million
Episodes
714

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
Tornado561135$78 million
Hail49605$966,000
Flash Flood18303$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind9600$215,000
Flood8910$52,000
Drought6600$6.0 million
High Wind3000$211,000
Winter Storm2818$192,000
Heavy Snow1944$536,000
Winter Weather1603$35,000
Blizzard1013$1.5 million
Wildfire900$3.6 million
Ice Storm800$43 million
Excessive Heat630
Heat400
Heavy Rain200$5,000
Dense Fog214
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100
Freezing Fog102$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Reno County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Reno CountyEvery warning in Reno 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.