Mar 16, 2010
Accumulating snowfall across the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains was extensive during the 2009/2010 winter with snowfall water equivalent amounts across the Minnesota River Valley as high as six inches. Across the Mississippi River Valley and the Crow, snowfall water equivalent amounts were between three and five inches. ||The winter had very little melting on the snow cover and therefore, once temperatures in March started to rise and melt the snow cover, there was nearly three to six inches
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 219982). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Yellow Medicine County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.