Kansas

Storm History: Rush County, Kansas

417 episodes, 807 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Rush 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
807
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
417

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
Hail33900$9.8 million
Tornado24408$2.5 million
Flash Flood5200$6,000
Flood2900$12,000
Thunderstorm Wind2600$582,000
Winter Storm2200
Heavy Snow1900
Heavy Rain1800
High Wind1500$10,000
Winter Weather1400
Blizzard1100
Ice Storm700
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Wildfire300
Frost/Freeze100
Dust Storm100

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 Rush County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Rush CountyEvery warning in Rush 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.