Heavy Rain in Kansas

Events

1,562

Deaths

2

Injuries

9

Damage

$2.3 million

• Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 24 to 25, 20112 deaths · 1 injured · $124,000 · EF2 · 72 eventsA vigorous upper level disturbance, jet streak dynamics and a strong dry line combined to produce numerous rotating thunderstorms. Large hail, flooding rains, and tornadoes were observed.
• 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 Flood in Kansas, June 9, 2005$3.0 million · F3 · 40 eventsThis was a landspout that did not hit anything.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 20, 20071 death · $2.9 million · 2.75 in hail · 58 eventsAn outbreak of very severe thunderstorms moved south across a large part of southwest Kansas. There was one fatality.
• Tornado and Flash Flooding in Kansas, August 14 to 15, 20182 deaths · EF0 · 13 eventsVery heavy rains occurred across portions of southeast Kansas producing prolific flash flooding. Unfortunately, two people lost their lives while trying to drive across a water covered road. Rainfall amounts up 8.5 inches were noted.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 15 to 16, 2003$17 million · F2 · 39 eventsThe tornado began 1 mile west of town and first tore through the northwest part of Liberal destroying several mobile homes and throwing a pickup into the debris. Other homes in the area received heavy roof damage.
• 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.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, June 3, 20051 death · $900,000 · 1 in hail · 10 eventsFast flowing water washed out bridge and closed U.S. Highway 56.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 6 to 7, 20151 injured · $5.8 million · EF2 · 19 eventsThunderstorms developed early this Wednesday afternoon and evening, and predominantly produced tornadoes and flash flooding. Five tornadoes occurred over Jewell County.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, July 1, 1999$53 million · 4 in hail · 63 eventsPoked holes in siding of house.
• 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 Hail in Kansas, May 8 to 9, 2016$1.8 million · EF2 · 24 eventsVery large hail and a tornado occurred over north central Kansas on this Sunday afternoon and evening. Thunderstorms had developed over western Kansas by mid-afternoon and, by 5:30 p.m. CST, they began moving into north central Kansas.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 24 to 25, 2015$1.0 million · EF2 · 33 eventsA strong short wave trough lifting out of the Rockies combined with an atmosphere that was recovering from earlier thunderstorms. There likely was mesoscale interactions with old outflow boundaries. Tornadoes formed along a warm front lifting north.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 27 to 28, 2015$4.5 million · EF1 · 45 eventsThunderstorms developed in a very unstable atmosphere aided by a short wave trough and residual outflow boundaries.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, May 7 to 11, 20076 injured · $7.0 million · 11 eventsAnother round of heavy rain producing thunderstorms gave flash flooding. The city of Topeka made nearly 500 water rescues due to the flash flooding. The community of Wakarusa also had a few water rescues as well.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, August 1 to 23, 1997$2.4 million · F0 · 81 eventsSome damage to cars.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 15 to 16, 2009$1.2 million · EF0 · 92 eventsA significant severe weather episode developed across portions of Kansas on the evening of June 15th, 2009, into the early morning hours of June 16th.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, May 14 to 15, 20201 death · $600 · 1 in hail · 31 eventsSevere storms dropped lots of hail, produced sporadic wind damage, and also caused widespread flooding and areas of flash flooding on May 15th, 2020. Hail sized remained below 1.5 inches and the winds were between 60 and 70 mph.
• Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, June 1 to 4, 2011$15 million · EF0 · 38 eventsLess than 48 hours after a line of damaging winds marched across North Central Kansas, a significant episode of severe weather targeted the six-county area on this Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning in the vicinity of a surface warm front.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, October 21 to 22, 20082 injured · $3.7 million · 1.75 in hail · 43 eventsA late and unseasonably strong upper storm helped produce widespread severe weather during the late evening. This activity continued into the early morning hours, unusual for so late in the Fall. Large hail, high wind and excessive rainfall was reported.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Kansas, August 19 to 20, 20161 death · 1 in hail · 18 eventsA major flash flood event engulfed many locations across south central Kansas. During the evening of August 19th a strong cold front pushed across central and eastern Kansas. Storms developed along this front and tracked off to the southeast during the evening hours.
• Tornado and Flood in Kansas, July 3 to 4, 2005$1.2 million · F0 · 73 eventsThe hail covered the ground.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 30, 2012$184,000 · 2 in hail · 108 eventsProlific hail-producing severe thunderstorms broke out over Central and South-Central Kansas.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 13 to 15, 2018EF2 · 68 eventsSevere thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a quasi-stationary front that was draped across the area. One long-lived supercell produced a brief tornado northwest of Ark City before exiting into Oklahoma and becoming stationary.

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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.