Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

Overview

A stalled frontal boundary was draped across the region on Tuesday ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area once again. These storms inundated areas that were already saturated from recent rainfall resulting in widespread flooding across south central Kansas.

Significant flooding started during the late night hours of May 7th, when Chanute picked up around 5 inches of rainfall in only a couple hours. This caused widespread flash flooding across the city where numerous water rescues took place. Flooding became more widespread the following day.

At one point, the NWS Wichita had river flood warnings out for 38 river points with 20 additional counties in an areal flood warning! The most significant flash flooding occurred during the night of May 8th, when areas southeast of Wichita picked-up between 7 and 10 inches of rainfall in a 24 hours period. Numerous water rescues took place across Mulvane, Augusta, Wellington and Rose Hill. In addition, several miles of the Kansas Turnpike was closed south of Mulvane due to the Slate Creek reaching record levels! Closing this much of the Kansas Turnpike due to flooding hasn't happened in over 30 years!

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Flooding

Significant flooding is occurring along many rivers and creeks in south central Kansas, some of the worst flooding in years is occurring at some locations.

Hydrographs

Photos & Video

Flooding around Halstead

Drone video of the flooding on the turnpike (I-35) in southern Kansas. #kswx #flooding https://t.co/eoFxcNlVnM
— Michael Armstrong (@KOCOMichael) May 8, 2019

Now there's a good reason to close an interstate/turnpike. This is in between Wichita and the OK/KS border on I-35. #kswx #okwx #flooding https://t.co/9ctyh1Xnqz
— Michael Armstrong (@KOCOMichael) May 8, 2019

#Travel @KansasTurnpike #kswx #Flooding https://t.co/VhKuKMsRMh
— Mike Smith (@USWeatherExpert) May 8, 2019

Behind @McDonalds in Augusta, KS. There is a dirt road under all that water somewhere! #kswx @FWaughKAKE pic.twitter.com/GU94Eblnda
— WBJ Digital Editor, Brittany Schowalter (@ICTBizDigital) May 8, 2019

Crazy flooding in Cowley County at the Winfield Fairgrounds. Animals were evacuated from one of the barns. #kswx pic.twitter.com/OFZew53eq3
— Brady Bauman (@Brady2Day) May 8, 2019

@NWSWichita @JayPraterCBM
Northeast Hutchinson
28 hour rainfall #kswx pic.twitter.com/pMumU2Iulr
— Weather Watchers (@wxwatchersks) May 8, 2019

A field west of Augusta is flooded with water from the Whitewater River. pic.twitter.com/P9nJtZ9iSi
— KFDI News (@kfdinews) May 8, 2019

Flooding on 7th Street in Augusta. pic.twitter.com/Y6MhZsjoqT
— KFDI News (@kfdinews) May 8, 2019

Radar

Hover and click on the image above to see an enlarged radar animation from 10 AM on Tuesday May 7 through 6 AM on Wed May 8, 2019.

Rain Reports

3 day rainfall total

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Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

Significant flooding across south central Kansas