Aug 24, 2019
Given that several official NWS cooperative observer stations within this six-county North Central Kansas area realized their wettest month of August on record (including Plainville 4WNW, Natoma and Beloit), it should come as no surprise that there were at least a few rounds of flooding rains. For some areas mainly south of the Highway 36 corridor, the roughly 48-hour period from the morning of Friday the 23rd through the pre-dawn hours of Sunday the 25th was one of the wettest stretches of the
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 849942). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Rooks County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.