May 24, 2019
A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th. Of the severe thunderstorm modes, floods & flash floods proved to be, by far, the greatest threat to these areas. The flash flooding continued across primarily Southeast Kansas well into the 25th and in parts of South-Central Kansas, the morning of the
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 825532). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Greenwood County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.