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Kansas Flood Stories

1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flood

Cowley, KS · Jun 13, 2010

A stationary boundary, from the previous nights convection on June 12th, stalled over Southern Kansas, and provided the focus for renewed shower and thunderstorm development during the afternoon and evening hours of June 13th, 2010.

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Flood$10K damage

Allen, KS · Jun 16, 2010

Low-level Moisture advection in concert with an upper level disturbance resulted in a cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms over Eastern Kansas during the late afternoon and early evening hours on the 16th.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Phillips, KS · Aug 24, 2008

An upper level disturbance crossing the region aided in the development of late night thunderstorms across north central Kansas, which continued on into the early morning hours of the 24th.

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Flash Flood

Crawford, KS · Apr 30, 2019

Very moist and unstable conditions developed over Southeast Kansas ahead of an intense low pressure system over the Southern Plains. Widespread severe storms developed over Oklahoma and eastern Kansas during the early morning hours and tracked eastward into the eastern Kansas…

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Flash Flood

Crawford, KS · Apr 30, 2019

Very moist and unstable conditions developed over Southeast Kansas ahead of an intense low pressure system over the Southern Plains. Widespread severe storms developed over Oklahoma and eastern Kansas during the early morning hours and tracked eastward into the eastern Kansas…

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Flash Flood

Rice, KS · May 8, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Cowley, KS · May 8, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Butler, KS · May 7, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Sumner, KS · May 7, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Butler, KS · May 8, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Sumner, KS · May 8, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Sedgwick, KS · May 25, 2019

A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th.

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Flash Flood

Sedgwick, KS · May 25, 2019

A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th.

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Flash Flood

Cowley, KS · May 25, 2019

A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th.

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Flash Flood

Butler, KS · May 7, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Sedgwick, KS · May 7, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Sedgwick, KS · May 25, 2019

A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th.

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Flash Flood

Sumner, KS · May 8, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Wilson, KS · May 6, 2019

A line of supercell thunderstorms developed along a slow moving cold front, during the afternoon and evening of May 6th, 2019 into the early morning hours of May 7th. The supercells produced large hail and some damaging winds.

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Flash Flood

Sumner, KS · May 8, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Harper, KS · May 27, 2019

Severe thunderstorms broke out across Barton & Lincoln Counties in the evening. Then, as evening progressed, the severe thunderstorms spread across most of the remainder of Central Kansas, then across South-Central Kansas overnight, before finally weakening as they approached…

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Flash Flood

Sumner, KS · May 27, 2019

Severe thunderstorms broke out across Barton & Lincoln Counties in the evening. Then, as evening progressed, the severe thunderstorms spread across most of the remainder of Central Kansas, then across South-Central Kansas overnight, before finally weakening as they approached…

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Flash Flood

Butler, KS · May 7, 2019

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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Flash Flood

Butler, KS · May 24, 2019

A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th.

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