1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →Two clusters of strong to severe storms that developed to the west and northwest of the Ozarks affected southeast Kansas into west central Missouri.
Read the full account →An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →Two clusters of strong to severe storms that developed to the west and northwest of the Ozarks affected southeast Kansas into west central Missouri.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of storms producing heavy rainfall, severe winds, hail and tornadoes moved across Southeastern Kansas and into the Missouri Ozarks from May 20th through May 22th as upper level disturbances interacted with a slow moving but powerful storm system over the Central…
Read the full account →An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →A significant severe weather event occurred across the Tri-State Region on the evening of August 11th, 2019. Widespread damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding was reported to NWS Goodland. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred along with some large hail.
Read the full account →Late in evening on the 24th, severe thunderstorms broke out across Central Kansas. The severe thunderstorms produced a trifecta of hail as large as golf balls, winds that reached around 70 mph, and torrential rains that caused flooding and flash flooding.
Read the full account →In the evening of May 28 a strong tornado formed in Douglas County and grew to a wide EF-4 tornado. This is the same storm that caused the storm chasing group to fly off the road just south of Lawrence, Kansas.
Read the full account →Extremely powerful Severe thunderstorms that produced a trifecta of large (in a few instances very large) hail, damaging winds that reached as high as 80 mph, and flash floods struck parts of Central as well as most of South-Central and Southeast Kansas in the afternoon and…
Read the full account →Extremely powerful Severe thunderstorms that produced a trifecta of large (in a few instances very large) hail, damaging winds that reached as high as 80 mph, and flash floods struck parts of Central as well as most of South-Central and Southeast Kansas in the afternoon and…
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →Supercell thunderstorms developed across portions of central Kansas, during the late afternoon and evening of May 5th, 2019. The supercells initially produced large hail, but quickly became tornado producing storms, as they moved east southeast.
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