Kansas-Missouri floods of June-July 1951 /

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United States. Weather Bureau

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United States. Hydrologic Services Division

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TextSeries: Technical Paper ; no. 17.Publisher: Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau 1952Description: viii, 105 pages : maps, photographs, tables ; 26 cmContent type:

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VF FLOD.150.b.e.c.02 USWB 1952 ASFPM

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Abstract: The purpose of this report is to compile and record the basic hydrometeorological data for the great Kansas-Missouri floods of June-July 1951. This type of information is essential in the planning of land and water management programs, including the safeguarding of life and property.Abstract: Following a two-month period of above-normal precipitation, rains of unprecedented intensity occurred over the Neosho, Osage, and Kansas Basins in Kansas during a 72-hour period from July 9 to July 12, 1951. The resulting floods, the greatest in more than a century, dealt a heavy blow to the economy of the region. Industrial districts and transportation centers of three metropolitan areas, Kansas City, Kans., Kansas City, and St. Louis, Mo., were in the path. Two state capitals, Topeka, Kans., and Jefferson City, Mo., experienced the devastation. In addition, 150 flourishing communities and smaller cities suffered severe damage. Thirty thousand farms, consisting of three million acres, were affected by the flood waters. Tangible losses amounted to nearly a billion dollars. Twenty-eight lives were lost. This flood, occurring in an important agricultural and industrial area, constituted a major catastrophe.

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"July 1952."

At head of title: U.S. Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau.

Prepared by the Hydrologic Services Division, U.S. Weather Bureau.

Staff. Public.

The purpose of this report is to compile and record the basic hydrometeorological data for the great Kansas-Missouri floods of June-July 1951. This type of information is essential in the planning of land and water management programs, including the safeguarding of life and property.

Following a two-month period of above-normal precipitation, rains of unprecedented intensity occurred over the Neosho, Osage, and Kansas Basins in Kansas during a 72-hour period from July 9 to July 12, 1951. The resulting floods, the greatest in more than a century, dealt a heavy blow to the economy of the region. Industrial districts and transportation centers of three metropolitan areas, Kansas City, Kans., Kansas City, and St. Louis, Mo., were in the path. Two state capitals, Topeka, Kans., and Jefferson City, Mo., experienced the devastation. In addition, 150 flourishing communities and smaller cities suffered severe damage. Thirty thousand farms, consisting of three million acres, were affected by the flood waters. Tangible losses amounted to nearly a billion dollars. Twenty-eight lives were lost. This flood, occurring in an important agricultural and industrial area, constituted a major catastrophe.