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The 1951 flood in Kansas began in May with the flood of the Big Creek, (a tributary of the Smoky Hill River) in Hays after 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in two hours. The creek overflowed, flooding Hays (the location of Fort Hays State University) to a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) in most locations inhabited by the students on campus, necessitating a midnight evacuation of the barracks by families on ...
The flooding was the worst in Indiana's modern history, according to Scott Morlock, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Indiana. Many roads were closed because of high water, including Interstate 65 , which was closed southbound at the interchange with Interstate 465 through Seymour.
The stream has always threatened the area with countless floods through history, sometimes being flooded by the Kansas River [6] [7] or flooding into Indian Creek. [8] Several floods in the early 1900s prompted a 1918-1920 engineering project creating a flood channel to the Kansas River by boring a 28 by 32 foot wide and 1,450 feet (440 m) long ...
A flood watch remained in effect for parts of central, south-central, and southeast Kansas from 6 am on Friday, March 12, until Sunday afternoon.“Periodic rounds of showers and thunderstorms ...
The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. [1] Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back ...
This may lead to flash floods throughout the metropolitan area after 2-4 inches of rainfall in some areas Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Kansas City. The flood watch is in ...
The city of Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky, has seen its worst flooding in 40 years, officials said Sunday. The North Fork Kentucky River crested at 30.5 inches overnight, marking the largest ...
The La Moine River crested to a record 32.54 feet (9.92 m) in Ripley on April 21, and the river did not subside below flood levels until April 26. [44] At Beall Woods State Park , more than 100 acres (0.16 sq mi) was flooded, and extensive flooding occurred across northern Mount Carmel , with all but one local road east of a levee along the ...