1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Intense late afternoon and early thunderstorms produced large hail and localized flash flooding across a part of north central Kansas. Beloit was hit the hardest as hail reached 2��� in diameter.
Read the full account →Persistent thunderstorms with heavy rain rates led to heavy rainfall and serious flooding in Osborne County during the early morning hours of May 16th.
Read the full account →Nearly stationary thunderstorms bring isolated heavy rain to portions of Phillips County during the early morning hours of May 31st. A mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) evolved out of a cluster of thunderstorms in W Kansas during the late evening hours on May 30th, then slowly…
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was draped across portions of Kansas during the day on May 7th, 2019 ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary in conjunction with rich low-level moisture and various upper level disturbances resulted in numerous rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms from the afternoon of the 25th into the evening hours of the 27th across portions of central,…
Read the full account →In the late morning of the 25th, a line of storms from eastern Kansas restrengthened as they slowly moved northwest. These storms dumped upwards of 6 inches of rain near Hoxie and caused flooding in various locations in northwest Kansas.
Read the full account →In the late afternoon to evening hours, scattered storms developed and trained across portions of northeast Kansas, leading to isolated reports of Flash Flooding with up to 5 inches of rainfall reported.
Read the full account →This was an active late Friday evening-early Saturday morning across this six-county North Central Kansas area, featuring limited severe weather in Rooks/Phillips counties and some relatively minor flooding mainly within the northeast one-third of Mitchell County.
Read the full account →In the late afternoon to evening hours, scattered storms developed and trained across portions of northeast Kansas, leading to isolated reports of Flash Flooding with up to 5 inches of rainfall reported.
Read the full account →During the evening the group of thunderstorms from East Central Colorado moved into Northwest Kansas behind a cold front. As the thunderstorms moved into Kansas they become an organized thunderstorm complex, turning into more of a wind threat than a hail threat.
Read the full account →A high impact storm system moved across Northwest Kansas. The storm system produced an environment that was favorable for any of the developing thunderstorms to produce a tornado, which led to multiple tornadoes occurring on this day.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was draped across portions of Kansas during the day on May 7th, 2019 ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area.
Read the full account →An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →Thunderstorm activity spread east into Northwest Kansas from Colorado. Hail up to tennis ball size was reported near Sharon Springs. Dust storm conditions near Sharon Springs were associated with one of the thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms produced large hail, high winds and torrential rainfall across north-central Kansas. The extremely heavy rain resulted in widespread flooding across Mitchell county.
Read the full account →Cold front brings slow moving thunderstorms and heavy rain to extreme southern portions of south central Nebraska during the late afternoon and evening of July 26.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours, scattered storms developed over Northwest Kansas as a warm front moved north. These storms produced hail ranging from pea to golf ball in size and a brief tornado near the town of Selden.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours, scattered storms developed over Northwest Kansas as a warm front moved north. These storms produced hail ranging from pea to golf ball in size and a brief tornado near the town of Selden.
Read the full account →In the late morning of the 25th, a line of storms from eastern Kansas restrengthened as they slowly moved northwest. These storms dumped upwards of 6 inches of rain near Hoxie and caused flooding in various locations in northwest Kansas.
Read the full account →In the late morning of the 25th, a line of storms from eastern Kansas restrengthened as they slowly moved northwest. These storms dumped upwards of 6 inches of rain near Hoxie and caused flooding in various locations in northwest Kansas.
Read the full account →In the late morning of the 25th, a line of storms from eastern Kansas restrengthened as they slowly moved northwest. These storms dumped upwards of 6 inches of rain near Hoxie and caused flooding in various locations in northwest Kansas.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was draped across portions of Kansas during the day on May 7th, 2019 ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was draped across portions of Kansas during the day on May 7th, 2019 ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was draped across portions of Kansas during the day on May 7th, 2019 ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area.
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