Kansas

Storm History: Wilson County, Kansas

330 episodes, 544 events since 1954

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.

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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
Tornado19001$832,000
Hail13200$79,000
Flash Flood7010$23 million
Drought4100$350,000
Flood2500$5,000
Winter Storm1701$550,000
Thunderstorm Wind1600$3,000
Heavy Snow1200$250,000
Excessive Heat800
Ice Storm700
Winter Weather701$8,000
Heat600
Wildfire500
Blizzard300$50,000
Lightning100$150,000
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Wilson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.