5 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 1:54 AM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 254 AM CDT TUE JUL 19 2005 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERNS REMAIN LOCATION/DURATION OF PRECIP TODAY...AND HEAT THEREAFTER. FRONT WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA MONDAY NOW RETREATING BACK EAST ACROSS THE AREA. 850 MB LLJ FEEDING INTO THE FRONT FROM THE SW...AIDING IN ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER THE BOUNDARY AND GENERATING SOME SHOWERS AND STORMS. FRONT BECOMES NEARLY NORTH/SOUTH AROUND THE NOON HOUR...WITH OVERRUNNING COMING TO AN END AND DEEPER MIXING SETTING BACK IN. WILL END PRECIP WEST TO EAST IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S THEN SETTLE BACK IN...HAVE MADE SOME SLIGHT DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENTS FOR AREAS WITH PREVIOUS AND ONGOING PRECIP. WED...NEXT S/W MOVES THROUGH THE FLOW ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER...WITH TRAILING FRONT GENERATING PRECIP NORTHEAST OF THE AREA. WESTERN RIDGE BEGINNING TO NOSE IN FROM THE WEST...AND AT THIS TIME THINK CONVECTION WILL STAY NORTH AND EAST. MID LEVEL TEMPS RISE AHEAD OF THE WAVE...AND HAVE INCREASED MAX TEMPS...WITH EVEN SOME 100S OUT WEST. THURS/FRI...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SHIFTS INTO THE GREAT LAKES AND LAYS BOUNDARY ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER OF KANSAS...STILL LOOKS PRECIP FREE BUT DID TRIM A FEW DEGREES OF MAX TEMPS NORTH. THE RIDGE BUILDS IN OVERHEAD FRIDAY AND WITH 850 MB TEMPS NEAR 28C HAVE INCREASED TEMPS THIS DAY AS WELL WITH 100S IN SOME AREAS. LOOKS LIKE THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. SAT-MON..RIDGE MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD THROUGH THIS PERIOD...WITH WEAK SW FLOW OVER THE STATE BY MONDAY. NO CHANGES. KC && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 335 AM CDT TUE JUL 19 2005 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-201000- ANDERSON-BROWN-CLAY-CLOUD-COFFEY-DICKINSON-DOUGLAS-FRANKLIN-GEARY- JACKSON-JEFFERSON-LYON-MARSHALL-MORRIS-NEMAHA-OSAGE-OTTAWA- POTTAWATOMIE-REPUBLIC-RILEY-SHAWNEE-WABAUNSEE-WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...CLAY CENTER...CONCORDIA... EMPORIA...HIAWATHA...JUNCTION CITY...LAWRENCE...MANHATTAN... MARYSVILLE...OTTAWA AND TOPEKA 335 AM CDT TUE JUL 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON. WHILE SOME STORMS MAY BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH NEAR 100 DEGREES AT TIMES FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/TOP (ALL LOWER CASE)
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:48 UTC.
5 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Very heavy rain for a brief time caused an indirect injury on the Kansas Turnpike when a driver hydroplaned and struck a median wall.
Clark, Georgia and Butler roads impassable due to fast flowing water.
Small streams out of banks and flowing fast over rural roads.
Up to six inches of fast flowing water over highway 31 near mile marker 65.
Up to three feet of water flowing over county roads west of Princeton with trucks flooded.
Over two feet of water flowing across Butler road.
Many county roads washed out in the southern part of the county. Some roads covered with three feet of water. The flooding was the result of up to ten inches of rain.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2005
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: 5464261, 5464255, 5464256, 5464257, 5464258, 5464259, 5464260.