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Williamson, West Virginia experienced major flooding as the Tug Fork was expected to crest at 49 feet (14.9 m), three feet above flood stage. A flood wall protected the downtown area from major damage, but other parts of the city and other areas in Mingo County had major damage. The record for Williamson is 52.6 feet (16 m).
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 ...
Missouri River flooding continues to cause more damage over the last decade. There have been major flooding events June - August 2011, December 2015 thru January 2016, and April - May 2017. [45] In March 2019 the Missouri River flooded almost every levee devastating countless farms and homes in Holt County, Missouri. The rise in water levels ...
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 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 ...
The Kansas City metro is in a flood watch as severe weather and heavy rain are likely to continue throughout the weekend. An additional 1-3 inches of rain are expected through Sunday.
If you want to know the specific flood risk for your home, use the Kansas City Parcel Viewer’s floodplain layer. 64112 around the Plaza Merchants along Nichols Road assess the damage of the 1977 ...
In St. Charles County, the Missouri River reached well above flood stage with forecasts as high as 11 feet (3.4 m) above flood stage, and seven private levees were threatened. Another hard-hit community was Arnold , where the Meramec River threatened to reach major flood stage for the third time in 2008, although sandbags were still up from the ...