1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Numerous thunderstorms produced torrential rains across parts of South-Central Kansas for much of the afternoon and evening. Major flooding occurred. The most serious was that of a flash flood that occurred in Wichita.
Read the full account →A strong short wave trough lifting out of the Rockies combined with an atmosphere that was recovering from earlier thunderstorms. There likely was mesoscale interactions with old outflow boundaries. Tornadoes formed along a warm front lifting north.
Read the full account →Several clusters of strong to severe storms developed during the afternoon and evening over Northwest Kansas, some of them remaining stationary at times.
Read the full account →Approximately 14 tornadoes were documented and confirmed via reports and radar data all occurring during the late afternoon and evening of May 6th. The tornadoes impacted Republic, Cloud, Washington and Clay Counties. In fact, 7 tornadoes alone occurred in Republic County.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front led to the development of a line of showers and thunderstorms across the area during the afternoon and evening of July, 6th, 2015. Wet microbursts along the slow moving line led to damaging winds of 70-80 mph across portions of South Central Kansas.
Read the full account →A decaying cluster of thunderstorms brought severe weather to east central Kansas and west central Missouri during the morning hours of September 10th. Additional thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours within an extremely unstable air mass.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms produced torrential rains across parts of South-Central Kansas for much of the afternoon and evening. Major flooding occurred. The most serious was that of a flash flood that occurred in Wichita.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms produced torrential rains across parts of South-Central Kansas for much of the afternoon and evening. Major flooding occurred. The most serious was that of a flash flood that occurred in Wichita.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms produced torrential rains across parts of South-Central Kansas for much of the afternoon and evening. Major flooding occurred. The most serious was that of a flash flood that occurred in Wichita.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms produced torrential rains across parts of South-Central Kansas for much of the afternoon and evening. Major flooding occurred. The most serious was that of a flash flood that occurred in Wichita.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms produced torrential rains across parts of South-Central Kansas for much of the afternoon and evening. Major flooding occurred. The most serious was that of a flash flood that occurred in Wichita.
Read the full account →During an 18-hour stretch between noon CDT on Tuesday the 4th and 6 a.m. on Wednesday the 5th, two fairly distinct rounds of widespread thunderstorm activity soaked much (but not all) of this six county North Central Kansas area with 1-4 inches of rain, and localized pockets as…
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
Read the full account →A couple of upper-level perturbations that moved east/northeast across Oklahoma and extreme Southern Kansas interacted with a moisture-laden air mass to generate very heavy rains across South-Central & Southeast Kansas on the 23rd and 24th.
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