2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An outflow boundary interacting with a very moist airmass characterized by surface dewpoints in the middle to upper 70s triggered clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms across south-central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 20th.
Read the full account →A line of showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon of Friday, May 13, 2022 generally along and east of the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois.
Read the full account →Heavy rains from June 13th to June 15th resulted in the La Moine River at Colmar going above the major flood stage level of 24 feet on June 16 around 1246 am CDT. It crested around 24.3 feet around 7 am CDT June 16.
Read the full account →Heavy rains from June 13th to June 15th resulted in the La Moine River at Colmar going above the major flood stage level of 24 feet on June 16 around 1246 am CDT. It crested around 24.3 feet around 7 am CDT June 16.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Mississippi River at Burlington going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on June 22 around 230 pm. It crested around 16.95 feet around 1 pm June 26.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →A thundestorm developed over northern Kane County during the afternoon of August 8th and quickly began to rotate and produced funnel cloud reports but no confirmed tornado touch downs.
Read the full account →After a dry start to January, significant rainfall brought minor river flooding to the Wabash River. Three rain events during the last half of January were responsible for the flooding.
Read the full account →Severe flash flooding was caused by rainfall amounts between 4 and 7 inches in 24 hours. A moving vehicle was swept off a road into a field by fast-moving floodwaters. The female driver was able to escape to safety by walking through neck-deep floodwaters.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacting with a stationary frontal boundary draped across central Illinois triggered clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of May 19th.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacting with a stationary frontal boundary draped across central Illinois triggered clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of May 19th.
Read the full account →Periods of heavy rain fell across portions of northern Illinois during the morning of March 14th producing localized flooding. Storm total rainfall amounts included 1.83 inches two miles southwest of Mokena; 1.69 inches near Oak Forest; 1.65 inches three miles east of New…
Read the full account →Periods of heavy rain fell across portions of northern Illinois during the morning of March 14th producing localized flooding. Storm total rainfall amounts included 1.83 inches two miles southwest of Mokena; 1.69 inches near Oak Forest; 1.65 inches three miles east of New…
Read the full account →Periods of heavy rain fell across portions of northern Illinois during the morning of March 14th producing localized flooding. Storm total rainfall amounts included 1.83 inches two miles southwest of Mokena; 1.69 inches near Oak Forest; 1.65 inches three miles east of New…
Read the full account →Periods of heavy rain fell across portions of northern Illinois during the morning of March 14th producing localized flooding. Storm total rainfall amounts included 1.83 inches two miles southwest of Mokena; 1.69 inches near Oak Forest; 1.65 inches three miles east of New…
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