Kansas

Storm History: Wichita County, Kansas

456 episodes, 684 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wichita 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
684
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$8.9 million
Episodes
456

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
Hail24200$6.2 million
Tornado19305$953,000
Drought6500
Flash Flood3300$10,000
Thunderstorm Wind2900$26,000
High Wind2500$10,000
Heavy Snow1700
Dust Storm1600
Blizzard1500$3,000
Winter Storm1501$1.1 million
Winter Weather801
Wildfire811$550,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood300
Frost/Freeze200
Ice Storm200

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 Wichita County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wichita CountyEvery warning in Wichita 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.