Mar 21, 2011
Due to a very wet fall, and a deep snow pack by mid March, when temperatures began to rise and melt the snow, area streams, creeks and eventually rivers rose to minor, moderate, and major stage levels. ||During the onset of the snow melt, area streams, creeks and rivers had numerous ice jams that caused flooding across many areas in southern Minnesota. Road closures due to creeks and streams developed as early as Monday March 21st, and quickly spread across a large portion of southern Minnesota.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 288945). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Nicollet County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.