1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rains on the 27th sent the Black Vermillion River into flood. Longtime residents of the area said it was one of the worst they had seen. Areas from Centrailia to the confluence with the Kansas River were flooded. Some property and crop damage was reported.
Read the full account →Widespread heavy rainfall and flooding occurred across southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks. The heavy rainfall was associated with several rounds of efficient rain producing stratiform events along a stalled warm front.
Read the full account →In the late afternoon of the 30th, storms began to fire across eastern Colorado and moved northeast through northwestern Kansas. Later in the night, another round of storms moved east through the area.
Read the full account →Unbelievably, an outbreak of tornadoes, some very large in size, raked the earth in basically the same area as the day before when Greensburg was nearly completely leveled.
Read the full account →Numerous strong to severe thunderstorms ravaged portions of central, south-central and southeast Kansas during the overnight hours of June 26th. Thunderstorms initially developed over Nebraska and northern Kansas during the afternoon and evening hours of the 26th.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours on August 13th, 2023, a weak cold front sagged southward across the area. Widely scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developed along the front as it slowly pushed southward during the late afternoon and evening hours.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours on August 13th, 2023, a weak cold front sagged southward across the area. Widely scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developed along the front as it slowly pushed southward during the late afternoon and evening hours.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed over the Kansas City metropolitan area on the morning of June 23. Storms continued to back-build and dumped heavy rains on the area.
Read the full account →Slow moving severe t-storms developed during the late afternoon on May 19th. The storms produced some large hail reports and did produce one small tornado that did tree damage in Wabaunsee County.
Read the full account →In the middle afternoon, storms began forming in northeastern Colorado. As the day progresses, a line of storm cells formed with one cell producing multiple wind gusts around 100 MPH based on the tree damage left behind. These storms also produced hail up to quarter in size.
Read the full account →Widespread thunderstorm activity occurred over Northwest Kansas during the evening. Hail up to golf ball size was reported at Rexford. Thunderstorm winds moving out ahead of the storm over Cheyenne County caused a localized dust storm on Highway 27.
Read the full account →Widespread thunderstorm activity occurred over Northwest Kansas during the evening. Hail up to golf ball size was reported at Rexford. Thunderstorm winds moving out ahead of the storm over Cheyenne County caused a localized dust storm on Highway 27.
Read the full account →A surface cold front pushing across the area brought another round of thunderstorms during the evening hours. Their movement along the front allowed for locally heavy rainfall of generally 1 to 2 inches.
Read the full account →Intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the region during the afternoon and evening hours producing 10 tornadoes, including an F4 tornado just SW of Quinter. Extremely heavy rainfall also resulted in flooding in many areas.
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 →Heavy rains on the 27th sent the Black Vermillion River into flood. Longtime residents of the area said it was one of the worst they had seen. Areas from Centrailia to the confluence with the Kansas River were flooded. Some property and crop damage was reported.
Read the full account →Widely scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours of June 23rd across portions of central and south central Kansas. These storms moved north and northeast through the evening hours with additional development through the overnight hours.
Read the full account →Widely scattered, slow moving thunderstorms drifted across the northeastern portion of Kansas during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 18th.
Read the full account →Strong gradient winds gusted across the state throughout the afternoon hours, ahead of an approaching cold front. The cold front merged with a dryline over eastern Kansas, and then instersected with an outflow boundary stretching east/west across northeast Kansas and northwest…
Read the full account →Heavy rain during the morning brought some flash flooding to parts of Pottawatomie county. Rock Creek in Louisville spilled out of its banks bringing some lowland flooding.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather episode developed across portions of Kansas on the evening of June 15th, 2009, into the early morning hours of June 16th.
Read the full account →As a shortwave trough moved into Kansas, thunderstorms developed along the dryline over western Kansas. These were training cells in two clusters. The northern storms dropped large hail (2.25 IN) and large quantities of rain in Trego county.
Read the full account →An extremely moist airmass was in place as storms erupted along a stationary front during the afternoon hours. Due to the high moisture content of the airmass, the storms were very efficient rainfall producers with some producing 3 to 4 inches of rain per hour.
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.
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