1,054 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kansas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Thunderstorms on the evening of October 4th produced very heavy rainfall resulting in major flash flooding over the Kansas counties of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Up to 3 to 5 inches of rain fell in a three hour period between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM CDT.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms on the evening of October 4th produced very heavy rainfall resulting in major flash flooding over the Kansas counties of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Up to 3 to 5 inches of rain fell in a three hour period between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM CDT.
Read the full account →Widespread early morning thunderstorms with attendant very heavy rain caused widespread flash flooding. The flash flooding gave way to more generalized flooding by late morning. Some of the flooding lasted for several days.
Read the full account →Widespread heavy rains of 6-10 inches inundated South-Central and Southeast Kansas from the evening of October 30th thru November 1st while 4-8 inches drenched Central Kansas.
Read the full account →Another round of heavy rain producing thunderstorms gave flash flooding. The city of Topeka made nearly 500 water rescues due to the flash flooding. The community of Wakarusa also had a few water rescues as well.
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 →The combination of high atmospheric moisture, and a nearly stationary south |to north orientated boundary, and southwest winds, generated several rounds of |showers/embedded storms on September 8th, 2020.
Read the full account →Torrential rains of from 7 to 9 inches caused record flooding of Stranger Creek in Easton, and near record flooding at Tonganoxie. The Stranger Creek at Easton crested at 26.00 feet, 9.00 feet above flood stage. This broke the previous high water record by one tenth of a foot.
Read the full account →Two separate thunderstorm events produced a little severe weather and flash flooding on this Friday. The first episode was associated with a couple supercells that formed near McCook, Nebraska the prior evening.
Read the full account →Two separate thunderstorm events produced a little severe weather and flash flooding on this Friday. The first episode was associated with a couple supercells that formed near McCook, Nebraska the prior evening.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms erupted around midnight south of Interstate 70 and moved southeast overnight. Baseball size hail broke windows in Sherman County, while extremely heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding across Logan and Gove counties.
Read the full account →Late morning through mid afternoon a couple intense thunderstorms moved southeast ahead of a cold front. The longest lived storm produced a path of wind damage, with estimated wind speeds up to 120 MPH, which destroyed grain bins and outbuildings, and snapped power poles and…
Read the full account →A torrent of rain was unleashed on the eastern half of Jewell county on June 22. Over 9 inches of rain fell at Lovewell Reservoir. Flash flooding was reported near the campground just downstream on the White Rock Creek.
Read the full account →Widespread heavy rains of 6-10 inches inundated South-Central and Southeast Kansas from the evening of October 30th thru November 1st while 4-8 inches drenched Central Kansas.
Read the full account →A record breaking flood event occurred October 1st into October 3rd over a part of Northeast Kansas. Intense rainfall during the late evening of October 1st through the early morning of October 2nd brought six to twelve inches of rain to southern Pottawatomie, northern Shawnee,…
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 →During the late afternoon and well into the evening, scattered strong to severe thunderstorms formed over Northwest Kansas. The storm coverage and intensity increased during the early evening. The strongest storms were located near an old outflow boundary.
Read the full account →Several waves of heavy rainfall occurred over southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri between June 10th and June 12th. The Spring River basin was especially impacted with this heavy rain.
Read the full account →A large complex of thunderstorms and heavy rain moved across most of Southern Kansas during the early morning hours of June 7th, 2014. Over 2 inches of rainfall fell in and around the Wichita metro area to produce flooding of city streets and low lying areas.
Read the full account →Heavy rain of 5 to 12 inches fell over portions of extreme southeast Kansas. Unoffical reports of rainfall as high as 14 inches was reported in Bourbon County Kansas. The hardest hit areas were along the Marmaton River in Bourbon County including Ft. Scott.
Read the full account →Northeastern Kansas was hit by three waves of thunderstorms on June 27 and 28, which produced excessive rainfall and eventually resulted in significant flash flooding in the Kansas City area.
Read the full account →A powerful but slow moving storm system that brought numerous tornadoes to Central and Southwest Kansas also brought significant flooding to parts of Central Kansas. The storms that produced the tornadoes on May 4th-5th brought with them very heavy rain.
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