Flood in Kansas

Events

1,646

Deaths

11

Injuries

8

Damage

$140 million

• Tornadoes and Flooding in Kansas, April 14 to 15, 201238 injured · $500 million · EF4 · 61 eventsA significant severe weather outbreak with several damaging long track tornadoes occurred. The strongest tornado moved through portions of central Kansas and produced EF-4 damage at one home stead. Two other tornadoes touched down producing EF-3 damage in south central Kansas.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, April 25 to 30, 20093 deaths · 4 injured · $8.1 million · EF1 · 83 eventsA slow moving frontal boundary in conjunction with rich low-level moisture and various upper level disturbances resulted in numerous rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms from the afternoon of the 25th into the evening hours of the 27th across portions of central,…
• Winter Storm and Flooding in Kansas, April 13 to 14, 20073 deaths · $20,000 · 11 eventsA powerful spring snowstorm moved through Kansas from the afternoon of April 13th to the early morning hours of April 14th. Winter storm warnings were hoisted for much of Central and South Central Kansas. The storm was strong enough that numerous areas reported thundersnow.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, September 11 to 15, 20082 deaths · 2 injured · $4.7 million · 33 eventsMoisture plume from the Southwest United States spread northeast towards the plains and interacted with a stationary boundary to produce a deluge of rainfall across Central and South Central Kansas.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, July 3 to 4, 20051 death · 6 injured · $15 million · F1 · 94 eventsOccurred on west side of town. One large tree uprooted, falling onto house.
• Tornadoes and Flooding in Kansas, June 26 to 27, 20188 injured · $14 million · EF3 · 45 eventsA few thunderstorms developed in Central Kansas in the morning, primarily over Barton County where golf ball-sized hail was reported 5 miles south/southwest of Great Bend.
• Tornadoes and Flood in Kansas, June 11, 2008$7.1 million · EF3 · 55 eventsSupercell thunderstorms erupted along a strong cold front across Central Kansas. The supercell storms produced destructive hail and damaging winds, along with tornadoes across Central, Kansas. A few strong tornadoes touched down just south of Salina, Kansas.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, May 8, 20091 death · 1 injured · $33 million · 1.25 in hail · 60 eventsA complex of thunderstorms moved southeast out of Northwest Kansas into Central and South Central Kansas during the early morning hours of May 8th, 2009.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, July 1 to 4, 20071 death · $149 million · 21 eventsAn upper level low pressure system and associated frontal boundary stalled across the area for several days, resulting in periods of numerous and widespread heavy showers and thunderstorms across portions of south-central and southeast Kansas from early on the 27th until July…
• Tornadoes and Flood in Kansas, June 9, 2005$3.0 million · F3 · 40 eventsThis was a landspout that did not hit anything.
• Flooding in Kansas, November 1 to 5, 19981 death · 2 injured · $32 million · 14 eventsWidespread heavy rains of 6-10 inches inundated South-Central and Southeast Kansas from the evening of October 30th thru November 1st while 4-8 inches drenched Central Kansas.
• Flooding and Hail in Kansas, July 8 to 9, 200920 injured · $13 million · 2.75 in hail · 30 eventsElevated thunderstorms developed rapidly over portions of South Central Kansas during the evening hours of July 8th, 2009. As the massive storms made slow progress to the east, they produced hail up to baseball size over Downtown Wichita, Kansas.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 22 to 23, 2008$4.5 million · EF2 · 45 eventsA series of intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the area during the afternoon and early evening hours. Long-track tornadoes, flash flooding, large hail and damaging winds were reported across much of northwest Kansas into extreme southern Nebraska.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 4, 2005$1.6 million · F2 · 65 eventsThree farmsteads or businesses sustained damage with a total of 15 buildings damaged or destroyed. Several cars were rolled and a combine was moved a considerable distance. A salvage yard was near one of the houses damaged by the tornado.
• Flooding in Kansas, July 1 to 3, 20071 death · $1.1 million · 5 eventsThe upper level low that brought persistent heavy rain during late June had moved out on the 1st with rain ending. However, flooding continued for a couple of days early in the month.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 28 to 29, 2013EF3 · 44 eventsSupercell Thunderstorms developed along a stationary boundary and produced large tornadoes during the afternoon and evening of May 28th 2013. 2 tornadoes occurred in Nemaha county Kansas and at least 1 violent long lived tornado occurred in Ottawa County Kansas.
• Tornadoes and Flooding in Kansas, May 5, 2007$110,000 · EF2 · 107 eventsUnbelievably, an outbreak of tornadoes, some very large in size, raked the earth in basically the same area as the day before when Greensburg was nearly completely leveled.
• Tornadoes and Flood in Kansas, May 10, 2010$605,000 · EF2 · 62 eventsSevere thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours of May 10th, 2010, ahead of an approaching dry line and warm front.
• Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 26 to 30, 20161 death · EF0 · 80 eventsAnother round of late May storms produced very strong winds and damaging hail to central Kansas on both the 26th and 27th. Very large hail up to baseball size was noted along with a significant amount of flooding due to the heavy rains.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 1 to 29, 19971 injured · $259,000 · F0 · 163 eventsTrees and power lines blown down in center of town.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, June 22 to 24, 2003$4.3 million · F2 · 7 eventsThunderstorms developed over Republic county the evening of the 22nd and persisted into the early morning hours of the 23rd. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds along with several tornadoes (discussed separately) were the result.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, May 23 to 28, 2007$23 million · 3.5 in hail · 67 eventsA stalled frontal boundary resulted in numerous, slow-moving strong to severe thunderstorms across portions of central and south-central Kansas from the afternoon hours on May 23rd, to the early morning hours on May 24th.
• Flood and Hail in Kansas, April 23, 20045 injured · $695,000 · 1.75 in hail · 82 eventsRoof blown off a barn. (Narrative courtesy Anthony Republican.)
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, September 3 to 4, 20161 death · $40,000 · 1 in hail · 16 eventsDuring the late afternoon and through most of the night strong to severe thunderstorms developed and trained along a surface boundary. The storms slowly moved east across parts of Northwest Kansas. The largest hail reported was quarter size in far northern Cheyenne County.
• Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 27, 20132 injured · $1.2 million · 4.25 in hail · 83 eventsExtremely powerful severe thunderstorms erupted over Central Kansas in the afternoon, then went on a rampage across South-Central and Southeast Kansas from late in the afternoon through late that evening.

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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.