Record rains and flash floods prompt water rescues in Kansas City, U.S.
Record rainfall caused flash flooding in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, July 24, 2025, submerging streets and prompting multiple water rescues.

Record rainfall caused flash flooding in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, July 24, 2025, submerging streets and prompting multiple water rescues.

At least 16 people have died as a multi-hazard weather system brought widespread flooding from Texas to Ohio, with the heaviest impacts reported in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas since Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

At least five people were reported dead after a storm system brought heavy torrential rains to Missouri starting on Monday, November 4, 2024. The system dropped around 203 mm (8 inches) of rain over the region between Monday and Tuesday, November 5, leading to widespread floods and rescues.
As record flooding continues along the Mississippi River, the operation to breach a levee to save an Illinois town was carried out Monday night. The Army Corps of Engineers exploded the levee in the agricultural community of Birds Point, Montana, Monday night to