1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jun 4, 3:20 AM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 420 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERNS ARE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL AND SEVERE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MOST PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LIFTED NORTHEAST AS H500 SHORTWAVE PASSED. CONVECTION ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL/SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL CLIP AREAS ALONG I-35 EARLY THIS MORNING. ANOTHER H500 WAVE MOVING THROUGH COLORADO THIS MORNING WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KANSAS AROUND NOON AND INTERACT WITH HIGHLY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AS CLOUDS BREAK THIS AFTERNOON...EXPECTING HIGHS TO REACH THE MID 80S. LIFT FROM THE H500 WAVE WONT END UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 1 AND 1.5 INCHES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS LIFT INCREASES ON NOSE OF H850/700 THETA-E AXIS INTO THE FORECAST AREA. BELIEVE GENERAL RAINFALL BETWEEN ONE-HALF AND ONE INCH WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A HINT OF ADDITIONAL ENERGY ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE H500 WAVE...WILL ONLY CONTINUE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF I-35 ON SUNDAY WITH THE REST OF THE AREA SUNDAY. SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY LOOK DRY WITH WEAK H500 RIDGING. EXPECT A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDER ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW SHORTWAVE BEGINNING TO TAP WARM AIR ADVECTION. THIS WILL KEEP LOW CHANCES FOR THUNDER GOING THE REST OF THE WORK WEEK. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6AM SUNDAY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ABILENE...TO MANHATTAN...TO SENECA.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 434 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-051000- 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 434 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN CONCERN ALONG WITH POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TODAY AND TONIGHT ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ABILENE...TO MANHATTAN...AND SENECA. ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE A GAP IN THE RAIN PART OF THE DAY...MORE RAINFALL WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. GENERAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE-HALF AND ONE INCH WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE ARE ANTICIPATED FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR RESIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF I-35. A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS GENERALLY NORTH OF I-70 MONDAY NIGHT AND AREAWIDE TUESDAY WITH CHANCES INCREASING AND CONTINUING THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/TOP (ALL LOWER CASE)
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1046 PM CDT FRI JUN 03 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1044 PM FLOOD ABILENE 38.92N 97.21W
06/03/2005 DICKINSON KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTS SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS FLOODED AND
BARRICADED.
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CAVANAUGHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
150 AM CDT SAT JUN 04 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0142 AM FLOOD GARNETT 38.28N 95.24W
06/04/2005 ANDERSON KS TRAINED SPOTTER
MULTIPLE ROADS IN GARNETT ARE CLOSED.
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WOLTERSThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A water rescue was made of a person trapped in a stalled vehicle in Wellsville. However, they were not injured.
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, June 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: 5460540.