1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A complex of marginally severe thunderstorms developed and moved through the region during the morning hours of the 3rd. Most thunderstorms did not produce severe hail or wind, but rainfall was very heavy causing short term flooding in many areas.
Read the full account →A complex of marginally severe thunderstorms developed and moved through the region during the morning hours of the 3rd. Most thunderstorms did not produce severe hail or wind, but rainfall was very heavy causing short term flooding in many areas.
Read the full account →A complex of marginally severe thunderstorms developed and moved through the region during the morning hours of the 3rd. Most thunderstorms did not produce severe hail or wind, but rainfall was very heavy causing short term flooding in many areas.
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 →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 →In the early afternoon of the 25th, multiple storms formed in northwestern Kansas and moved north-northeast. There were multiple clusters, or waves, of storms throughout the afternoon to overnight hours.
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 →A series of intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the area during the afternoon and early evening hours. Long-track tornadoes, flash flooding, large hail and damaging winds were reported across much of northwest Kansas into extreme southern Nebraska.
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 →Strong to severe thunderstorms moved along the Highway 54 corridor across Kansas and Missouri. The storms produced very heavy rainfall with rainfall totals exceeding 4.50 inches at some locations.
Read the full account →After dropping some hail across a part of north central Kansas, severe thunderstorms dumped in excess of three inches of rain in southern Rooks county. This caused the upper reaches of Paradise Creek to overflow and cover a part of U. S. Highway 183 for a time.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms, that produced heavy rainfall began during the evening of May 31st. 2022, and persisted into the overnight hours across south central Kansas. The flash flooding continued into the early morning hours of June 1st. 2022.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms, that produced heavy rainfall began during the evening of May 31st. 2022, and persisted into the overnight hours across south central Kansas. The flash flooding continued into the early morning hours of June 1st. 2022.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms, that produced heavy rainfall began during the evening of May 31st. 2022, and persisted into the overnight hours across south central Kansas. The flash flooding continued into the early morning hours of June 1st. 2022.
Read the full account →A slowly moving cold front triggered several severe thunderstorms from Chase County into western Sedgwick County. Hail up to the size of quarters and wind gusts to 60 mph occurred with the storms.
Read the full account →An extremely unstable airmass was in place across southern Kansas on May 31st as storms erupted along a stationary front from western Oklahoma into southern Kansas. Storms quickly became severe producing very large hail along with a couple brief tornadoes.
Read the full account →An extremely unstable airmass was in place across southern Kansas on May 31st as storms erupted along a stationary front from western Oklahoma into southern Kansas. Storms quickly became severe producing very large hail along with a couple brief tornadoes.
Read the full account →An extremely unstable airmass was in place across southern Kansas on May 31st as storms erupted along a stationary front from western Oklahoma into southern Kansas. Storms quickly became severe producing very large hail along with a couple brief tornadoes.
Read the full account →Initially it was an isolated severe thunderstorm that straddled the Chase and Morris county line, but there was additional thunderstorm development as it tracked to the east and southeast.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rain of 3 to 5 inches resulted in flash flooding across southern Rooks County. The flooding was along the Paradise Creek basin and impacting most locations along Kansas Highway 18 from Palco to east of Codell.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rain of 3 to 5 inches resulted in flash flooding across southern Rooks County. The flooding was along the Paradise Creek basin and impacting most locations along Kansas Highway 18 from Palco to east of Codell.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rain of 3 to 5 inches resulted in flash flooding across southern Rooks County. The flooding was along the Paradise Creek basin and impacting most locations along Kansas Highway 18 from Palco to east of Codell.
Read the full account →In the late afternoon a slow moving, heavy rain producing thunderstorm was moving southeast across southwestern Nebraska and into Northwest Kansas.
Read the full account →On the evening of August 15th, a cold front advanced towards Northwest Kansas from the west, then stalled along the Colorado/Kansas border going into August 16th.
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