Kansas

Storm History: Stanton County, Kansas

434 episodes, 745 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stanton 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
745
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$532,000
Episodes
434

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
Hail30300$500
Tornado16300$412,000
Flash Flood6303$2,000
High Wind3600$27,000
Thunderstorm Wind3400$92,000
Flood3400
Heavy Snow2900
Winter Storm2000
Winter Weather1400
Blizzard1000
Wildfire900
Heavy Rain800
Ice Storm700
Dust Storm500
Dense Fog400
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300

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 Stanton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stanton CountyEvery warning in Stanton 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.