High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Waldo was a Pacific hurricane that caused significant flooding in Kansas during October 1985. After developing into a tropical depression on October 7, it steadily intensified, becoming a tropical storm within a day. Waldo reached hurricane intensity on October 8. After peaking as a moderate Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, it re-curved to the east, making landfall at peak intensity near Culiacan. Afterword, it rapidly dissipated. In all, Waldo caused moderate damage in Sonora. The remnants of the storm combined with a cold front over the Great Plains. Significant flooding and one death was recorded in Kansas. Many rivers and creeks overflowed its banks.