Heavy Rain, Mitchell
- When
- May 31, 5:20 PM CST to 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County, 1 mi S of Simpson
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- $200,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.393, -98.209 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Kansas, May 31, 2006
Slow moving thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and continued through the evening. 50 inches of rain fell in a one hour time period resulting in water pooling on the streets and in other low lying areas around Simpson.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- $200,000
- 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 GID wrote it up.
Slow moving thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and continued through the evening. A quick 2.25 to 4.50 inches of rain fell in a one hour time period resulting in water pooling on the streets and in other low lying areas around Simpson.
What forecasters said that day
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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 31, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 305 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2006 .SHORT TERM...FORECAST FOCUS IS THE RISK FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. TWO AREAS OF CONCERN SHOW UP. ONE IS THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS WEAK CONVERGENCE NEAR/IN SOUTHEAST/EASTERN CWFA. INCREASED MOISTURE OVER SOUTHEAST CWFA COULD BE ENOUGH TO POP A FEW STORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. STORMS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE WILL WORK EAST...THEN SOUTHEAST BY LATE EVENING AND MORE LIKELY TO IMPACT THE SOUTHWEST CWFA. AS THIS HAPPENS...UPPER TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE CWFA THROUGH THE NIGHT. ALL OF THIS SPELLS RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS...AND BROAD BRUSHED WITH ISOLATED/SCATTERED CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. TROUGH PASSES EARLY THURSDAY MORNING LEAVING A VERY PLEASANT DAY. SOME DISCUSSION REGARDING RETURN FLOW AND OVERNIGHT MID LEVEL CONVECTION BUT HELD OFF FOR NOW. .LONG TERM...12Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS WILL BE WITH A COOL FRONT THAT MOVES THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA MONDAY NIGHT AND TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD. A WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVES ACROSS THE RIDGE ON SATURDAY...BUT THERE IS NOT MUCH MOISTURE TO WORK WITH AND THE SURFACE FRONT IS FAR ENOUGH TO THE WEST THAT THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANYTHING TO INITIATE ON. THE SURFACE FRONT REMAINS TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. DURING THAT TIME THERE WILL BE SOUTH WINDS AND TEMPERATURES AT 850MB ARE EXPECTED TO BE 20 TO 24 DEC C. THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR WARM TEMPERATURES TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...A SHORT WAVE MOVES THROUGH EASTERN NEBRASKA AND IOWA. SINCE THERE IS LITTLE MOISTURE IN THIS AREA AND THE UPPER SUPPORT IS TO THE EAST...EXPECT THAT THERE WILL BE NO PRECIPITATION WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH...THE TEMPERATURES ONLY BRIEFLY DROP BELOW 20 DEG C AT 850MB BEFORE WARMING BACK UP AGAIN. THE COOLER AIR SHOULD BE SHORT LIVED AND NOT VERY COOL TO BEGIN WITH. ONLY HAVE A FEW DEGREES COOLER FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY THAN OVER THE WEEKEND. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. 05/JCB
Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 4:29 PM CST, 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 529 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2006 NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-011200- VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO- HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE- FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 529 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...HOWEVER THE BEST RAIN CHANCES WILL GENERALLY BE WEST OF HIGHWAY 183. AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM IS POSSIBLE...WITH THE MAIN HAZARDS EXPECTED TO BE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) KSZ005>007-017>019-011200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL- 529 PM CDT WED MAY 31 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TONIGHT. AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM IS POSSIBLE...WITH THE MAIN HAZARDS EXPECTED TO BE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 31, 2006
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Illinois, May 31, 2006
- Hail in Colorado, May 31, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 31, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 31, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, May 31, 2006
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 31, 2006
More
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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: 5506187.