Kansas

Storm History: Wabaunsee County, Kansas

482 episodes, 736 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wabaunsee 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
736
Deaths
2
Injuries
32
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
482

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
Hail25600$36,000
Tornado164126$31 million
Flash Flood11210$488,000
Thunderstorm Wind4502$397,000
Winter Storm4400
Winter Weather1503
Heavy Snow1200
Heat1200
Dense Fog1200
Drought1100
Flood1000
Excessive Heat1000
High Wind900$2,000
Ice Storm801
Blizzard600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Strong Wind200$45,000
Lightning100$3,000

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 Wabaunsee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wabaunsee CountyEvery warning in Wabaunsee 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.