Storm History: Wilson County, Kansas
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wilson 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
- 544
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- $25 million
- Episodes
- 330
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 190 | 0 | 1 | $832,000 |
| Hail | 132 | 0 | 0 | $79,000 |
| Flash Flood | 70 | 1 | 0 | $23 million |
| Drought | 41 | 0 | 0 | $350,000 |
| Flood | 25 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Winter Storm | 17 | 0 | 1 | $550,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 16 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 12 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 7 | 0 | 1 | $8,000 |
| Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 3 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Sleet | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 1, 1999
- Tornado, September 24, 1973
- Tornado, May 20, 1982
- Heavy Snow, March 10, 2000
- Drought, July 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2009
- Lightning, August 20, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 24, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2008
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2009
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2013
- Blizzard, March 27, 2009
- Tornado, February 28, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2021
- Tornado, June 12, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2010
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 8, 2011
- Hail, February 17, 2000
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 2, 1998
- Hail, September 9, 1992
- Tornado, May 31, 2022
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Hail, March 12, 2006
- Tornado, June 29, 2024
- Hail, August 16, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2019
- Hail, May 21, 2005
- Tornado, July 4, 1995
- Hail, June 14, 1985
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 26, 1991
- Tornado, May 12, 2004
- Tornado, August 17, 1985
- Tornado, June 12, 2004
- Tornado, July 7, 2016
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Tornado, March 24, 1954
- Tornado, July 12, 1956
- Tornado, July 11, 1958
- Tornado, March 26, 1961
- Tornado, April 30, 1973
- Tornado, September 24, 1973
- Tornado, April 7, 1986
- Tornado, April 9, 1994
- Tornado, July 25, 1995
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, May 30, 2026
- Tornado, April 26, 2026
- Hail, March 31, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 8, 2026
- Hail, July 12, 2025
- Wildfire, March 14, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2025
- Hail, October 30, 2024
- Hail, August 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 2024
- Tornado, June 29, 2024
- Flood, May 15, 2024
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Tornado, April 27, 2024
- Tornado, April 26, 2024
- Drought, March 1, 2024
- Drought, February 1, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Flood, October 24, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Drought, June 1, 2023
- Flood, May 12, 2023
- Drought, May 1, 2023
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Drought, April 1, 2023
- Wildfire, March 31, 2023
- Drought, March 1, 2023
- Drought, February 1, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2022
- Tornado, May 31, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2022
- Hail, May 14, 2022
- Flood, May 4, 2022
- Heavy Snow, March 10, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2022
- Wildfire, December 15, 2021
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2021
- Tornado, July 15, 2021
- Hail, March 10, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 6, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2021
- Ice Storm, October 25, 2020
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2019
- Tornado, May 7, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 6, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 7, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Hail, June 11, 2018
- Drought, May 1, 2018
- Drought, April 1, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 10, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2018
- Flood, September 16, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2017
- Hail, August 16, 2017
- Flash Flood, April 29, 2017
- Hail, April 4, 2017
- Hail, February 28, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 13, 2017
- Hail, September 15, 2016
- Tornado, July 7, 2016
- Hail, July 5, 2016
- Hail, April 29, 2016
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2015
- Flood, May 16, 2015
- Tornado, April 8, 2015
- Tornado, April 7, 2015
- Tornado, April 2, 2015
- Hail, March 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, October 9, 2014
- Hail, October 1, 2014
- Drought, June 1, 2014
- Hail, May 8, 2014
- Drought, May 1, 2014
- Tornado, April 2, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2013
- Flood, August 6, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2013
- Hail, June 15, 2013
- Tornado, May 30, 2013
- Drought, May 1, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Tornado, February 28, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2011
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2011
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 14, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 10, 2011
- Hail, July 3, 2011
- Drought, July 1, 2011
- Flood, June 20, 2011
- Hail, June 18, 2011
- Hail, June 10, 2011
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- Hail, April 8, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Blizzard, January 31, 2011
- Tornado, September 15, 2010
- Heat, August 31, 2010
- Heat, August 20, 2010
- Heat, August 8, 2010
- Heat, August 1, 2010
- Excessive Heat, July 16, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2010
- Heat, June 27, 2010
- Excessive Heat, June 20, 2010
- Tornado, May 12, 2010
- Tornado, May 10, 2010
- Flash Flood, April 6, 2010
- Hail, April 2, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 19, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 28, 2010
- Ice Storm, December 23, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2009
- Hail, July 16, 2009
- Tornado, June 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2009
- Tornado, April 25, 2009
- Blizzard, March 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2009
- Winter Weather, December 15, 2008
- High Wind, December 13, 2008
- Flood, October 6, 2008
- Hail, June 22, 2008
- Tornado, June 12, 2008
- Hail, June 8, 2008
- Hail, June 3, 2008
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, May 1, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 23, 2008
- Flood, April 9, 2008
- Hail, April 7, 2008
- Hail, March 17, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2008
- Ice Storm, December 8, 2007
- Hail, October 21, 2007
- Hail, October 17, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2007
- Tornado, May 4, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 4, 2007
- Hail, March 9, 2007
- Winter Weather, January 31, 2007
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2007
- Sleet, January 12, 2007
- Winter Storm, November 30, 2006
- Tornado, August 25, 2006
- Hail, July 28, 2006
- Heat, July 16, 2006
- Tornado, June 17, 2006
- Hail, May 25, 2006
- Hail, May 3, 2006
- Tornado, April 6, 2006
- Hail, April 1, 2006
- Tornado, March 30, 2006
- Hail, March 12, 2006
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2006
- Hail, November 27, 2005
- Hail, November 27, 2005
- Tornado, September 13, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 24, 2005
- Lightning, August 20, 2005
- Tornado, June 30, 2005
- Hail, May 21, 2005
- Hail, April 5, 2005
- Tornado, August 27, 2004
- Hail, July 4, 2004
- Tornado, June 12, 2004
- Flood, May 13, 2004
- Tornado, May 12, 2004
- Flood, April 23, 2004
- Flash Flood, April 23, 2004
- Flash Flood, March 4, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2003
- Hail, August 5, 2003
- Tornado, July 9, 2003
- Tornado, May 6, 2003
- Tornado, May 4, 2003
- Tornado, April 28, 2003
- Tornado, March 12, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2003
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2002
- Hail, September 18, 2002
- Tornado, June 12, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2002
- Tornado, May 7, 2002
- Hail, April 19, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2002
- Ice Storm, January 30, 2002
- Tornado, September 7, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2001
- Tornado, June 5, 2001
- Hail, June 3, 2001
- Tornado, April 14, 2001
- Hail, April 9, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2000
- Hail, September 11, 2000
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Wilson CountyEvery warning in Wilson 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.