Kansas

Storm History: Seward County, Kansas

483 episodes, 904 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Seward 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
904
Deaths
0
Injuries
19
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
483

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
Hail34507$336,000
Tornado231012$19 million
High Wind8200$95,000
Flash Flood6400$9.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind4800
Heavy Snow2200
Flood2200$600
Winter Storm2100
Blizzard1300
Wildfire1100$125,000
Heavy Rain1000
Winter Weather1000
Ice Storm900
Dust Storm500
Dense Fog400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Drought200
Lightning100$50,000
Strong Wind100

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 Seward County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Seward CountyEvery warning in Seward 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.