1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rainfall of 3 to 9 inches caused flash flooding in and around most of the county including the city of Topeka. Flooding was most intense in the western and southern sections of the county. Many rural roads were underwater and impassable.
Read the full account →In the early afternoon of the 16th, scattered storms began to form near the west Kansas border. By the early evening, an organized line of storms began producing wind gusts up to 67 MPH.
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 →Moisture plume from the Southwest United States spread northeast towards the plains and interacted with a stationary boundary to produce a deluge of rainfall across Central and South Central Kansas.
Read the full account →Moisture plume from the Southwest United States spread northeast towards the plains and interacted with a stationary boundary to produce a deluge of rainfall across Central and South Central Kansas.
Read the full account →Moisture plume from the Southwest United States spread northeast towards the plains and interacted with a stationary boundary to produce a deluge of rainfall across Central and South Central Kansas.
Read the full account →Moisture plume from the Southwest United States spread northeast towards the plains and interacted with a stationary boundary to produce a deluge of rainfall across Central and South Central Kansas.
Read the full account →Storms developed over southeast Kansas ahead of an approaching cold front during the evening of the 12th and moved across far southeastern Kansas through the morning of the 13th.
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 →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 →A complex of severe thunderstorms developed across southwest Kansas during the late evening hours of June 6th. These storms then progressed across southern Kansas during the early morning hours of June 7th.
Read the full account →Supercell thunderstorms developed along a nearly stationary frontal boundary across Central and South Central Kansas during the late afternoon hours. The highly sheared environment lead to the supercells producing tornadoes between Wichita, Kansas and Winfield Kansas.
Read the full account →Supercell thunderstorms developed along a nearly stationary frontal boundary across Central and South Central Kansas during the late afternoon hours. The highly sheared environment lead to the supercells producing tornadoes between Wichita, Kansas and Winfield Kansas.
Read the full account →During the evening and into the overnight of the 8th, a complex of strong to severe thunderstorms came through central and southern Kansas. High winds up to 75 to 80 mph occurred with numerous reports of downed tree limbs and power lines.
Read the full account →In the early morning hours of the 15th, scattered showers began to slowly intensify into weak storms. In the early afternoon some of the scattered storms began producing small hail, with the largest stones falling in Sherman county being nickel sized.
Read the full account →In the early morning hours of the 15th, scattered showers began to slowly intensify into weak storms. In the early afternoon some of the scattered storms began producing small hail, with the largest stones falling in Sherman county being nickel sized.
Read the full account →A surface frontal boundary stalled out across portions of north central Kansas, providing a focus for evening thunderstorm development as an upper level disturbance moved through the Central Plains.
Read the full account →An intense line of thunderstorms developed around midday in eastern Colorado and rolled east through the afternoon hours. The line of storms produced dozens of severe weather reports, including 3 tornadoes, flooding rainfall, and intense outflow winds of 70 to 90 mph.
Read the full account →Scattered strong thunderstorms affected portions of south-central and southeast Kansas during the afternoon hours on the 27th. The thunderstorms were slow movers, producing very heavy rainfall rates upwards of 1 to 2 inches per hour at times.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary interacted with an unstable airmass to produce scattered strong to severe thunderstorms across portions of central and south-central Kansas during the evening hours of the 25th.
Read the full account →Moisture plume from the Southwest United States spread northeast towards the plains and interacted with a stationary boundary to produce a deluge of rainfall across Central and South Central Kansas.
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 →A cluster of stationary thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall over Dundy County Nebraska expanded south into Cheyenne County. Rainfall amounts of over eight inches fell, with the highest amounts of rain occurring near the Nebraska border.
Read the full account →A cluster of stationary thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall over Dundy County Nebraska expanded south into Cheyenne County. Rainfall amounts of over eight inches fell, with the highest amounts of rain occurring near the Nebraska border.
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