Flood — Butler, Kansas

2009-03-09 · near El Dorado, Butler, Kansas

Direct deaths

$10K

Property damage

Event narrative

Heavy rainfall caused ponding of water on North Main Street in El Dorado. This ponding of water caused a car to slide off the road into a rain swollen culvert. The heavy runoff carried the car 65 feet into a six by six culvert, where the driver became trapped and eventually drowned as water filled the car.

Wider weather episode

Numerous thunderstorms developed just to the north of an advancing warm front located along the Kansas/Oklahoma border across portions of South Central Kansas. A few discrete supercells developed, which lead to wind gusts to 60 mph and hail up to dime size.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 157557. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.