Haskell County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Haskell County: 0.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Nov 17, 2016Thunderstorm Wind$1.8 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   There was heavy tree damage in Sublette. At least 2 dozen pivot sprinkler irrigation sprinklers were overturned or destroyed, mainly west and north of Sublette. There were a few sprinklers reported damaged south of town town. There was video of the downburst wind moving through town with a few brief gustnadoes observed on the leading edge of the wall of dirt that was picked up.

2. May 27, 2015Tornado$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   This tornado did high end EF1 damage to Pivot irrigation sprinklers along with other damage to several outbuildings and eight large grain bins. A semi was flipped and carried into a field.

3. May 27, 2001Thunderstorm Wind$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   One-hundred pivot irrigation sprinklers were damaged or destroyed in and around the county from the high wind.

4. May 27, 2015Flash Flood$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Several county roads were washed out by flash flooding.

5. Jun 14, 2009Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This tornado moved rapidly east and then northeast. It damaged the Sublette feeders (grain elevator and equipment) and then overturned 3 pivot sprinklers, damaged trees and other irrigation pipe. The vortex was evident in the crop debris at two locations.

6. Aug 20, 2007Thunderstorm Wind$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A one half mile stretch of power poles were blown down. Several pivot irrigation sprinklers were overturned.

7. Nov 17, 2016Thunderstorm Wind$110,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Power poles were blown down and at least 2 pivot irrigation sprinklers were overturned in the vicinity.

8. May 26, 1996Tornado$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   2 irrigation sprinklers destroyed...fertilizer tanks carried over 1 mile...2 houses damaged...fence destroyed...trees uprooted...hay bales tossed...30 foot radio tower blown down...wheat plants pulled up...farm building heavily damaged...flood irrigation pipe scattered about.

9. May 10, 2016High Wind, Haskell$65,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A pivot irrigation sprinkler was overturned by the high wind at a field 3 miles south of Sublette.

10. Aug 2, 2009Tornado$65,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    This narrow tornado damaged a pivot irrigation sprinkler and corn. It moved into Seward county at 853 PM CDT.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

110°F4 times, most recently Jul 27, 2026

All-time low

−22°FMar 11, 1948

Warmest night

84°FAug 1, 1964

Coldest day

−2°FDec 21, 1983

Wettest day

5.27 inOct 4, 1969

Snowiest day

14.0 inNov 24, 1992

Hottest year

1954mean 57.7°F

Coldest year

1993mean 51.5°F

Wettest year

196930.75 in

Driest year

20225.03 in

Snowiest season

64.5 in1992-93

Station Garden City Regional Airport (USW00023064), 2,878 ft elevation, 30.9 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1947 to October 26, 2026; 99.3% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).

OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USW00023064.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

Joins, thresholds and known limits are set out in the methodology. Found an error? Report it. Page built October 30, 2026.