Kansas

Storm History: Saline County, Kansas

558 episodes, 1,004 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saline 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
1,004
Deaths
3
Injuries
104
Damage
$85 million
Episodes
558

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
Tornado329068$60 million
Hail28009$804,000
Flash Flood10000$12 million
Thunderstorm Wind7700$160,000
Flood5000$390,000
Drought4000
Winter Storm2800$530,000
High Wind2700$46,000
Heavy Snow1301$310,000
Winter Weather1335$65,000
Blizzard9020$60,000
Heavy Rain800
Ice Storm600$9.8 million
Excessive Heat600$500,000
Wildfire501
Heat400
Lightning200$30,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Strong Wind200$2,000
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100
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 Saline County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saline CountyEvery warning in Saline 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.