Kansas

Storm History: Trego County, Kansas

424 episodes, 768 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Trego 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
768
Deaths
5
Injuries
101
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
424

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
Hail33900$5.5 million
Tornado2015101$8.9 million
Flash Flood5300$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind3000$11,000
Heavy Snow2700
Winter Storm2600
Flood2000
High Wind1600$25,000
Winter Weather1300
Blizzard1200
Ice Storm900$2.4 million
Wildfire600
Dust Storm500
Heavy Rain500
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 Trego County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Trego CountyEvery warning in Trego 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.