1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Severe thunderstorms developed between 3 and 4pm on April 26th along an old outflow boundary and moved north northeast across northeast Kansas.
Read the full account →The Southern and Central Plains were targets for a widespread, significant severe thunderstorm outbreak from early in the afternoon until late that night. All products of severe thunderstorms were forecast: Destructive hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.
Read the full account →The Southern and Central Plains were targets for a widespread, significant severe thunderstorm outbreak from early in the afternoon until late that night. All products of severe thunderstorms were forecast: Destructive hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.
Read the full account →The Southern and Central Plains were targets for a widespread, significant severe thunderstorm outbreak from early in the afternoon until late that night. All products of severe thunderstorms were forecast: Destructive hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.
Read the full account →The Southern and Central Plains were targets for a widespread, significant severe thunderstorm outbreak from early in the afternoon until late that night. All products of severe thunderstorms were forecast: Destructive hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed between 3 and 4pm on April 26th along an old outflow boundary and moved north northeast across northeast Kansas.
Read the full account →An unusually moist atmosphere (courtesy of Hurricane Newton remnants over western Mexico) in concert with subtle upper level disturbances approaching from the southwest combined to produced several bouts of very heavy rainfall across large portions of the area during the evening…
Read the full account →A strong mid-upper level perturbation moved northeast from the Southern Rockies to the Northern Plains. This character found high octane moisture residing across the Kansas Neighborhood to produce very heavy rains across Central and South-Central Kansas from late in the…
Read the full account →During the afternoon thunderstorms developed along a warm front over Greeley and Wichita counties. These storms slowly moved westward along the nearly stationary front.
Read the full account →During the late afternoon and through most of the night strong to severe thunderstorms developed and trained along a surface boundary. The storms slowly moved east across parts of Northwest Kansas. The largest hail reported was quarter size in far northern Cheyenne County.
Read the full account →During the late afternoon and through most of the night strong to severe thunderstorms developed and trained along a surface boundary. The storms slowly moved east across parts of Northwest Kansas. The largest hail reported was quarter size in far northern Cheyenne County.
Read the full account →During the late afternoon and through most of the night strong to severe thunderstorms developed and trained along a surface boundary. The storms slowly moved east across parts of Northwest Kansas. The largest hail reported was quarter size in far northern Cheyenne County.
Read the full account →An unusually moist atmosphere (courtesy of Hurricane Newton remnants over western Mexico) in concert with subtle upper level disturbances approaching from the southwest combined to produced several bouts of very heavy rainfall across large portions of the area during the evening…
Read the full account →An unusually moist atmosphere (courtesy of Hurricane Newton remnants over western Mexico) in concert with subtle upper level disturbances approaching from the southwest combined to produced several bouts of very heavy rainfall across large portions of the area during the evening…
Read the full account →An unusually moist atmosphere (courtesy of Hurricane Newton remnants over western Mexico) in concert with subtle upper level disturbances approaching from the southwest combined to produced several bouts of very heavy rainfall across large portions of the area during the evening…
Read the full account →For the second time in a week, a localized heavy-rain-only event (no severe storms) forced the South Fork Solomon River above minor flood stage in Osborne County.
Read the full account →During mainly an 18-hour period from the late morning of Wednesday the 24th into the pre-dawn hours of Thursday the 25th, two separate rounds of rain (the first one being the heaviest/most significant) affected nearly this entire six-county North Central Kansas area.
Read the full account →A major flash flood event engulfed many locations across south central Kansas. During the evening of August 19th a strong cold front pushed across central and eastern Kansas. Storms developed along this front and tracked off to the southeast during the evening hours.
Read the full account →A major flash flood event engulfed many locations across south central Kansas. During the evening of August 19th a strong cold front pushed across central and eastern Kansas. Storms developed along this front and tracked off to the southeast during the evening hours.
Read the full account →Regardless of an extremely weak flow aloft across the Western High Plains during the period, showers and thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon/evening in the vicinity of a frontal boundary that remained near and along the vicinity of the Oklahoma border.
Read the full account →Widespread storms across central Kansas packed a punch with several reports of high winds up to 80 mph and sporadic areas of damage on July 15th, 2020.
Read the full account →Moisture and instability increased significantly as S/SE flow drew increasing dew points northward. Precipitable water climbed to near 1.5 inch by sunrise.
Read the full account →Strong storms produced heavy rainfall and flooding as a slow-moving cold front moved across southeastern Kansas and into Missouri from overnight April 30th and continued into May 1st.
Read the full account →Storms, associated with a meso-scale convective system, developed over western Kansas during the late afternoon of the 21st and moved to the east-southeast from mid-morning through late afternoon.
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