Heavy rainfall occurring overnight resulted in damage to county roads west of St Francis. One county bridge and several culverts were washed out.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall occurring overnight resulted in damage to county roads west of St Francis. One county bridge and several culverts were washed out.
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 910 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2008 .UPDATE... 903 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2008 ORGANIZED MCS CONTINUES TO SLIDE TO SOUTHEAST OUT OF COLORADO...WITH AREA OF CONVECTION DEVELOPING IN WAA AREA AHEAD OF APPROACHING H5 SHORTWAVE TROUGH. RUC ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT INSTABILITY AXIS EXISTS FROM YUMA TO LEOTI...AND ALTHOUGH COOLING MAY STABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE...THINK FORCING AHEAD OF THE MCS SHOULD BE ABLE TO OVERCOME INHIBITION OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. WITH PRECIP ONGOING IN WAA...THINK THIS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AS H5 TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. HYDRO CONCERNS ARE HIGH TONIGHT AS WELL...ESPECIALLY OVER COLORADO ZONES...BUT WITH PRECIP JUST OUTSIDE THE AREA WILL HANDLE THINGS WITH WARNINGS AND NOT ISSUE A LATE WATCH. JRM && .DISCUSSION... HOT AUGUST DAYS IS NOT WHAT YOU WOULD TITLE THE TRI-STATE REGION RIGHT NOW. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS HAVE BEEN RIDING OVER THE PERIPHERY OF THE H5 RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. LOW CLOUD DECK HAS NOT LIFTED MUCH THIS AFTERNOON KEEPING TEMPERATURES GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 70S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID/UPPER 60S. NAM SOUNDING THIS AFTERNOON HAS PW VALUES AT 1.70 INCHES- WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 200% OF NORMAL. CURRENT RADAR LOOP SHOWS SCATTERED SHOWERS INCREASING THIS AFTERNOON WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE FRONT RANGE AND TRACKING EAST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING WITH INCREASED INSTABILITY AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. RECENT RAINFALL COMBINED WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES AND THIS ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN PLACE...HAVE ADDED PATCHY FOG IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING. EXPECT CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS TO REMAIN THROUGH LATE SATURDAY EVENING/EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. RIDGE AMPLIFIES SUNDAY AHEAD OF A PACNW LOW MOVING ONSHORE OVER BC. SUNDAY SHOULD BE MOSTLY DRY WITH SUBSIDENCE IN PLACE...HOWEVER AS THE LOW CONTINUES TRANSLATING EAST THE H5 RIDGE BREAKS DOWN ALLOWING MORE CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION TO MOVE INTO THE AREA. H5 FLOW WILL BE MAINLY ZONAL THROUGH THE REST OF THE FORECAST PERIOD ALLOWING MORE SHORTWAVE TROUGHS TO MOVE OVER THE AREA. THIS SHOULD KEEP ON AND OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE EXTENDED. && .AVIATION... 527 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2008 THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON THE TRI STATE REGION...AS COVERAGE APPEARS TO BE ON A DOWNWARD TREND. THERE IS HOWEVER A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA WHICH COULD IMPACT KMCK AS EARLY AS 04Z. THE OTHER CONCERN IS FOG AND STRATUS DEVELOPMENT...THOUGH THE WINDS ARENT AS FAVORABLE AS LAST NIGHT THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY CLOSE TO SATURATION AT LOW AND MID LEVELS. EXPECT DEVELOPMENT TO HAPPEN QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TOMORROW...MAINLY AFTER 18Z. SFJ && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1050 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-091200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1050 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2008 /1150 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO SPREADING EAST INTO WESTERN KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WITH CONTINUED CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1148 PM MDT FRI AUG 8 2008 KSZ014-090615- THOMAS- 1248 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 1243 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF GEM...OR NEAR GEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 14 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. JRM
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:57 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding near Roads P and 6 west of St Francis. One bridge and several culverts were destroyed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2008
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: 130690.