1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
Read the full account →A surface low over southeastern Colorado with boundaries extending south and northeast across northwestern counties of the CWA helped initiate severe thunderstorms and eventually heavy rainfall. Boundary layer moisture was rather high across the area.
Read the full account →This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →In the early afternoon of the 30th, storms from Colorado crossed into Kansas along I-70. These storms caused widespread wind damage and up to 2 inch in diameter hail. The highest measured wind gust was 79.4 mph at Hill City and then the station promptly stopped reporting winds.
Read the full account →In the early afternoon of the 30th, storms from Colorado crossed into Kansas along I-70. These storms caused widespread wind damage and up to 2 inch in diameter hail. The highest measured wind gust was 79.4 mph at Hill City and then the station promptly stopped reporting winds.
Read the full account →In the early afternoon of the 30th, storms from Colorado crossed into Kansas along I-70. These storms caused widespread wind damage and up to 2 inch in diameter hail. The highest measured wind gust was 79.4 mph at Hill City and then the station promptly stopped reporting winds.
Read the full account →Isolated large hail and damaging wind occurred during the evening hours of May 2nd over portions of north central Kansas. A isolated intense thunderstorm developed along the Phillips/Rooks County line around 5PM CDT.
Read the full account →This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
Read the full account →This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
Read the full account →This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
Read the full account →This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
Read the full account →This event broke the tornado drought for the NWS Wichita office of 611 days. Storms developed during the late afternoon hours on Wednesday, May 26th over Central Kansas near a warm front.
Read the full account →Isolated severe storms moved out of the Oklahoma Panhandle with a few hail reports over an inch in diameter. There was enough differential heating across southwestern counties allowing for CAPE values over 1500 J/kg.
Read the full account →In the early afternoon of the 30th, storms from Colorado crossed into Kansas along I-70. These storms caused widespread wind damage and up to 2 inch in diameter hail. The highest measured wind gust was 79.4 mph at Hill City and then the station promptly stopped reporting winds.
Read the full account →Heavy rains of 2 to 3 inches in a short period of time caused flash flooding in the listed counties. Some roads and bridges were washed out or damaged. Several vehicles were washed off roadways.
Read the full account →Storms initially developed around mid-day in west-central Kansas along an outflow boundary producing heavy rain and up to 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts in Wichita and Logan counties.
Read the full account →Three to 4 inches of rain in about 90 minutes caused widespread flash flooding in and around the city. Many streets and intersections had to be closed by police due to high water, stranded cars or floating debris. Some cars were reported to be floating, also.
Read the full account →Less than 48 hours after a line of damaging winds marched across North Central Kansas, a significant episode of severe weather targeted the six-county area on this Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning in the vicinity of a surface warm front.
Read the full account →Heavy rain to the tune of 8 inches fell near Portis, Kansas, causing the North Fork of the Solomon River to flood near Portis, and the South Fork to flood near Osborne. The river crested 3.9 feet above flood stage at Portis, and about 0.5 feet above flood stage at Osborne.
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