Kansas

Storm History: Stafford County, Kansas

416 episodes, 808 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stafford 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
808
Deaths
3
Injuries
8
Damage
$2.5 million
Episodes
416

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
Hail35100$235,000
Tornado27538$2.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind2700$185,000
Heavy Snow2300
Flood2300$15,000
Flash Flood2200
Winter Storm2200
Winter Weather1500
Ice Storm1300
High Wind1000$13,000
Blizzard1000
Heavy Rain800
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Strong Wind100
Dust Storm100
Wildfire100

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 Stafford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stafford CountyEvery warning in Stafford 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.