No change in drought status was noted during October. Extreme northwest and west-central counties remained in Severe (D2) Drought.
Every event with a place to put it; 7 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 episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
No change in drought status was noted during October. Extreme northwest and west-central counties remained in Severe (D2) Drought. With just a few exceptions, precipitation at cooperative observer sites was below normal during the month.
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 Sep 30, 7:47 PM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html><!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Cheyenne County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October. Precipitation during the month at the cooperative observer site near St Francis was 0.91 below normal.
Thomas County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October. Precipitation during the month at cooperative observer sites ranged from 0.76 to 1.32 below normal.
Logan County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October. Precipitation during the month at cooperative observer sites ranged from 0.83 below normal to 0.63 above normal.
Wichita County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October.
Sherman County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October. Precipitation during the month at the NWS office in Goodland was 0.89 below normal.
Wallace County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October. Precipitation during the month at cooperative observer sites ranged from 0.21 below normal to 0.38 above normal.
Greeley County remained in Severe (D2) Drought in October. Precipitation during the month at the cooperative observer site near Tribune was 0.18 above normal.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, October 2014
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 542235, 542237, 542239, 542241, 542236, 542238, 542240.