2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 8:10 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 910 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 2004 .DISCUSSION...UPDATE WILL BE UPDATING FORECAST TO ISSUE FLOOD WATCH FOR WICHITA SOUTH AND EAST THRU SATURDAY MORNING. HAVE HAD AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN THIS EVENING WITH LOCAL FLOODING. CONCERNED ABOUT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING ALONG AND NORTH OF 850MB FRONT CURRENTLY ALONG OK/KS BORDER (HINTED BY LAMONT PROFILER). MODELS FORECAST STRONG UPPER DIVERGENCE IN IN RIGHT-ENTRANCE REGION OF JET...AS WELL AS PERSISTENT 850MB THETA-E ADVECTION AND MOISTURE FLUX OVER SE 1/2 OF KS. EXPECT CONTINUED REDEVELOPMENT OF SHRA/TSRA OVER SRN KS...SPREADING ACROSS ERN/SERN AREAS. FFG VALUES HIGHER THE FURTHER SE ONE GOES...BUT EVEN VALUES IN SE KS COULD BE REACHED BY SLOW-MOVING CONVECTION. WILL GO WITH FLOOD WATCH. NO OTHER CHANGES TO FORECAST ANTICIPATED. WOLF ------------------------------- 348 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 2004 .DISCUSSION... FCST CONCERNS... CNVTV TRENDS/QPF TNGT AND SAT, TEMP TRENDS THRU THE PD... RATHER COMPLEX/UNUSUAL FCST FOR JULY ACRS THE PLAINS THRU MUCH OF THE FCST PD. MAIN CONCERNS TNGT ARE CNVTV/QPF TRENDS ACRS THE CWA, WITH POTNL FOR MRGNL SVR WX AND HVY RAFL AGAIN. GREATEST INSTBY WL RESIDE ACRS THE SRN CWA THIS EVE, WITH SHEAR PROFILE SUFFICIENT FOR A FEW ORGANIZED/SVR STMS WITH LRG HAIL AND WIND ALG THE OKLA BORDER. OTHERWISE, DECENT LIFT WITHIN ELEVATED MOIST LYR N OF SFC BNDRY TNGT ACRS THE CWA FOR SCT-NMRS SHWRS AND EMBEDDED TSRA. MODEL AND FCST CONSENSUS SUGGESTS GREATEST RISK FOR ADDTNL HVY RAFL WL BE JUST S OF AREA THAT RECEIVED SOME LCLY HVY RAFL IN LAST 24HRS. FFG VALUES ARE HIGHER IN THESE AREAS, SO NO FLOOD WATCH ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER, WL LKLY CONT TO HAVE MINOR FLOODING ISSUES WITH LOCAL FLOOD WARNINGS PROBLY NEEDED TNGT FOR A FEW COUNTIES. PTRN MORE REMINISCENT OF TRANSITION SEASON WL PREVAIL THRU THE WEEKEND, AS LRG CANADIAN AIRMASS CONTS TO OOZE SWD ACRS THE PLAINS. MSTR/LIFT ALG ELEVATED BAROCLINIC ZONE WL CONT TO PROVIDE CHCS FOR SHWRS INTO SAT NGT, THOUGH BEST CHCS WL BE ACRS THE ERN CWA, ASSOCD WITH MID LVL SHRTWV/LOW CIRC WHICH WL CONT TO MOV SLOWLY EWD INTO ECNTRL/SERN KS. MAIN UPR TROF APCHG FM THE NRN PLAINS WL GRADULY END PCPN CHCS AS DRIER AIR ADVCTS IN BY SUNDAY MRNG, THOUGH CLOUDS WL LKLY LINGER ACRS MUCH OF THE AREA. WL LKLY BE DEALING WITH SOME RECORD TEMPS (BOTH LOW MAX AND LOW MINS) THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS CANADIAN AIRMASS TAKES HOLD. EXTENDED FCST...TEMPS WL BE SLOW TO MODERATE THRU NEXT WEEK, WITH YET ANOTHER SGFNT UPR TROF MOVG ESEWD ALG THE NRN TIER/ CANADIAN BORDER BY MID-WEEK. THIS MAY PROVIDE SLGT PCPN CHCS DURG THE TUE NGT-THU TIME FRAME, AS LO LVL MOIST AXIS ACRS THE HIGHS PLAINS GET SHUNTED EWD INTO THE AREA AHD OF UPR LVL FEATURES. TEMPS TO RMN BLO CLIMO THRU THE PD, THOUGH PERHAPS CLOSER TO NORMAL BY THU/FRI. DARMOFAL && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 63 70 59 77 / 90 60 40 10 HUTCHINSON 61 69 57 77 / 80 50 30 10 NEWTON 62 68 58 76 / 90 50 40 10 ELDORADO 63 70 59 76 / 90 60 50 10 WINFIELD-KWLD 65 71 60 78 / 90 70 50 20 RUSSELL 58 67 54 77 / 70 40 20 5 GREAT BEND 60 68 56 77 / 70 40 20 5 SALINA 61 69 57 78 / 80 50 30 10 MCPHERSON 61 68 57 77 / 80 50 30 10 COFFEYVILLE 67 72 62 76 / 90 80 60 20 CHANUTE 65 71 60 75 / 90 80 60 20 IOLA 64 71 60 75 / 90 80 60 20 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 13/DARMOFAL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 945 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 2004 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-241200- RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE- RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE- 945 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT. RAINFALL WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES, AND COULD LEAD TO FLOODING. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAS KANSAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE, WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ON SATURDAY FOR AREAS MAINLY EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. AFTER A PERIOD OF COOL AND DRY WEATHER THRU EARLY NEXT WEEK, THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. AT THIS TIME IT IS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON THE MAGNITUDE AND TYPE OF ANY SEVERE RISK. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE LOCALIZED AND BRIEF NATURE OF THE SEVERE RISK THIS EVENING. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/ICT/HWO/HWOICT.HTM KED/PLW
The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:34 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Widespread flooding of county roads was reported throughout the night. One vehicle rescue was also performed near Rose Hill.
Widespread flooding was being reported across the county. Ten residents were evacuated near Peabody due to the high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2004
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: 5411560, 5411561.