Flash Flood in Butler County, Kansas

Reported ditches overflowing near YMCA along highway 54. Water was flowing into his garage about ankle deep. Water was also flowing over the roadway at the intersection of Southwest 70th and Ohio Street. Numerous roadways were impassible in Augusta due to flash flooding.

A warm front set up across central Kansas later in the afternoon and eventually, storms began to develop along it. The strongest storms were mainly across southeast Kansas with damaging wind reported in Montgomery and Labette counties; Parsons Airport had a measured wind gust to 86 mph. As the front slowly tracked to the southeast through the evening, storms became more widespread and trained across the same areas. There was a stronger storm within the activity which produced quarter sized hail in Sedgwick County, but the associated heavy rain was the bigger show. The hardest hit area was the Wichita metro and southern Sedgwick into northern Sumner County where a widespread 4 to 7 inches fell, most of it in a 2 to 3 hour period. Flash flooding reports from Wichita and surrounding areas were plentiful with around 112 reports of stalled vehicles in Wichita alone. Homes along the creeks were also threatened and impacted by flood waters. Basement apartments were evacuated in west Wichita. Just after 10:30 PM KAKE News shared reports on social media from the following intersections of flooded roadways: 13th and Maize, 8th and West, 21st and 295th, Custer and Pawnee, 13th and Rock, Pawnee and Seneca, Central and Tyler. The number of flooded intersections only increased through the next several hours as rain continued. Some of the flooding was due to quickly rising creeks, including the Cowskin in west Wichita, which led to additional street and property flooding.