Kansas

Storm History: Scott County, Kansas

477 episodes, 884 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Scott 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
884
Deaths
2
Injuries
2
Damage
$6.8 million
Episodes
477

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
Hail36211$2.9 million
Tornado23211$3.5 million
High Wind6400$17,000
Flash Flood3300$30,000
Heavy Snow3000
Winter Storm3000$150,000
Flood3000
Thunderstorm Wind2900$51,000
Blizzard1700
Wildfire1300$152,000
Winter Weather1100
Ice Storm900
Heavy Rain700
Dust Storm700
Dense Fog400
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300

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 Scott County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Scott CountyEvery warning in Scott 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.