A line of storms moved across Kansas Saturday evening into early Sunday morning bringing damaging winds, flooding rains, and claiming one life.
The Fatality was reported along the Harvey/Sedgwick county line near I-135 about six miles east of Sedgwick early Sunday morning after an electric lineman came upon a house that had been blown off its foundation. The National Weather Service in Wichita confirmed Sunday this was the result of an EF-2 tornado.
Another area hard hit by winds was in northwest Kansas, where 100 mile an hour winds were clocked in Colby. In addition to wind related damage, blowing dust created areas of near zero visibility. The National Weather Service in Goodland reported widespread 2-6” rainfall amounts from this storm, with numerous reports of flash flooding, particularly around the Atwood area, up to baseball sized hail in Sheridan County east of Colby, and a couple of brief tornado reports.
Heavy rainfall was also reported over portions of central and eastern Kansas, with the heaviest rainfall in an area generally from Russell to Pratt to Kingman and then east into southern portions of southeast Kansas where 4-5 inch rainfall reported were noted around Kingman, more than that around Wellington where cars were swept off the Kansas Turnpike Wind gusts to near 70 miles an hour were also reported in that area as well as near Moundridge in McPherson County.
Widespread 2–3-inch rainfall was also reported in northeast Kansas.
Additional storms are forecast for Sunday afternoon and evening, especially over western and southern parts of Kansas.
