Aug 3, 2010
An area of showers and thunderstorms developed over portions of western and central Iowa during the evening of August 2 and moved into eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois during the early morning of August 3. The showers and storms brought flooding rains of 1 to 5 inches to areas between Interstate 80 and Highway 34. This resulted in flash flooding of parts of Iowa and Washington Counties. Some of the thunderstorms were severe damaging a farmstead near Kinross, Iowa and downing a tree in F
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 257044). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Iowa County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.