Mar 9, 2019
Early reports starting on the 9th are in this entry, with several later reports starting on the 13th in Part II. ||Additionally the combination of heavy snowpack and heavy rainfall absorbed into the snow partially collapsed a horse barn roof in rural Adair County near Greenfield. ||An ice jam occurred in Ottumwa on the Des Moines River causing flash flooding were water rapidly rose several feet on the morning of the 12th. Several cars and campers were flooded.||A relatively deep and widespread s
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 814270). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Mahaska County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.