Kansas

Storm History: Wyandotte County, Kansas

366 episodes, 559 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wyandotte 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
559
Deaths
3
Injuries
78
Damage
$33 million
Episodes
366

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
Hail18400$132,000
Tornado101247$24 million
Flash Flood8000$4.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind7100$45,000
Winter Storm2500
Drought2100
Flood1900$125,000
Heat1610
Ice Storm1000$3.5 million
Heavy Snow900$250,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Winter Weather4031
High Wind300
Excessive Heat300
Blizzard300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Frost/Freeze100

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 Wyandotte County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wyandotte CountyEvery warning in Wyandotte 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.