Kansas

Storm History: Rooks County, Kansas

455 episodes, 755 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Rooks 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
755
Deaths
0
Injuries
10
Damage
$112 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
Hail27903$26 million
Tornado17607$31 million
Drought5400$40 million
Flash Flood4900$7.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind4300$4.6 million
Winter Storm3800$350,000
High Wind3000$70,000
Winter Weather2700
Blizzard2100$100,000
Flood700$130,000
Heavy Snow600$10,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Wildfire500$1.7 million
Ice Storm400$525,000
Frost/Freeze200$250,000
Excessive Heat100
Dust Storm100
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 Rooks County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Rooks CountyEvery warning in Rooks 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.