Kansas

Storm History: Republic County, Kansas

455 episodes, 776 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Republic 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
776
Deaths
0
Injuries
23
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
455

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
Hail313010$213,000
Tornado20703$16 million
Thunderstorm Wind6800$816,000
Flash Flood6100$329,000
Winter Storm3600
Heavy Snow1300$2,000
High Wind1100$52,000
Heat1000
Drought1000
Dense Fog701$15,000
Winter Weather700
Cold/Wind Chill600
Ice Storm500
Blizzard509$150,000
Excessive Heat500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Flood400
Funnel Cloud200
Lightning100
Heavy Rain100$50,000

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 Republic County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Republic CountyEvery warning in Republic 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.