The drought status remained unchanged through October for Northwest Kansas. The worst of the drought continued to be along and east of Highway 27 where a large area of D3 Extreme Drought was present.
Every event with a place to put it; 13 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.
The drought status remained unchanged through October for Northwest Kansas. The worst of the drought continued to be along and east of Highway 27 where a large area of D3 Extreme Drought was present. Rawlins and Decatur counties continued in the D4 Exceptional Drought category. Precipitation ranged from a hundredth of an inch to one and a half inches. This was as much as two inches below normal.
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, 4:56 PM CST, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.
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13 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a hundredth of an inch to one inch. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth of an inch to one inch. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth of an inch to one and a half inches. This was two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a hundredth of an inch to one inch, with the highest amounts in the northwest corner of the county. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to one and a half inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a hundredth of an inch to half an inch. This was two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to one and a half inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth of an inch to an inch. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a quarter of an inch to an inch. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a hundredth to a quarter of an inch. This was two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to one and a half inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth to an inch. This was two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one and a half to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth to an inch. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to two inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a hundredth of an inch to one inch, with the highest amounts in the southeast corner of the county. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to one and a half inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth of an inch to one and a half inches. This was near normal to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to one and a half inches.
The precipitation for the month ranged from a tenth of an inch to one inch, with the highest amounts in the northwest corner of the county. This was half an inch to two inches below normal. Normal precipitation ranges from one to one and a half inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, October 2022
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1057802, 1057806, 1057807, 1057808, 1057834, 1057835, 1057836, 1057837, 1057838, 1057839, 1057803, 1057804, 1057805.