Kansas

Storm History: Sedgwick County, Kansas

982 episodes, 3,150 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sedgwick 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
3,150
Deaths
40
Injuries
613
Damage
$1.3 billion
Episodes
982

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
Tornado1,09416437$1.2 billion
Hail96319$76 million
Flash Flood44011$6.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind23401$193,000
Flood205023$15 million
Drought5500$4.1 million
Winter Storm38530$688,000
High Wind2600$41,000
Winter Weather20444$2.2 million
Heavy Snow12036$1.3 million
Blizzard1056$120,000
Heavy Rain1000
Excessive Heat910
Ice Storm806$1.9 million
Heat7315
Wildfire700$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning220$2.0 million
Frost/Freeze204$15,000
Dense Fog200$50,000
Sleet101
Strong Wind100$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill120

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 Sedgwick County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sedgwick CountyEvery warning in Sedgwick 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.