Flash Flood in Butler County, Missouri

Flash Flood April 3, 2015 · Butler County, Missouri

Death

$20K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Flash flooding of drainage ditch number 1 for the Black River apparently caused a drowning fatality. A vehicle travelling along a small farm road parallel to the ditch got stuck in mud. The male victim was located several days later about 400 yards south of his pickup truck and six feet from the bank of the ditch. The search was suspended for about two days to allow the water to recede.

The wider storm

A complex of thunderstorms over central Missouri moved and redeveloped southeast across southeast Missouri. The activity developed near and north of an east-west oriented convective outflow boundary. The boundary sagged southward through a moderately unstable air mass. The overall intensity of the storms diminished as the atmosphere stabilized during the wee morning hours. Heavy rainfall and flooding of poor drainage areas was the primary hazard with these storms.

Began near Qulin (36.6000, -90.2700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 568600. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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