Flash Flood, Lyon
- When
- June 5, 1:00 AM CST to 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lyon County, Emporia
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 38.456, -96.153 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5, 1996
Between three and four inches or rain caused flooding of numerous mobile homes at the West Hill Mobile Home Park and flooded the basements and lower floors of several houses in town. In one neighborhood, the fire department evacuated seven people because of the rapidly rising water.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS TOP wrote it up.
Between three and four inches or rain caused flooding of numerous mobile homes at the West Hill Mobile Home Park and flooded the basements and lower floors of several houses in town. In one neighborhood, the fire department evacuated seven people because of the rapidly rising water. Several cars also became stranded in high water and dogs caught out in the storm drowned. Power outages occured when a transformer became covered with water.
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5550988.