2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
With daytime heating, showers and thunderstorms developed and raced east across eastern Iowa and northern Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 21. Some were severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
Read the full account →With daytime heating, showers and thunderstorms developed and raced east across eastern Iowa and northern Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 21. Some were severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
Read the full account →During the afternoon of April 29th, a QLCS from Oklahoma and southern Kansas entered southwest Illinois. Although the QLCS had been decaying up to this point, it was still capable of producing severe weather.
Read the full account →During the afternoon of April 29th, a QLCS from Oklahoma and southern Kansas entered southwest Illinois. Although the QLCS had been decaying up to this point, it was still capable of producing severe weather.
Read the full account →An intensifying, slow moving area of low pressure moved into central Illinois from late on October 22 into October 23. The result was a prolonged period of heavy rain on already saturated ground. Rainfall amounts in a 24 to 30 hour period ranged from 2.00 to 3.50 inches of rain.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall (2-5) across much of southern Illinois through the afternoon and evening of the 15th. The heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding north of Golconda where a creek overflowed its banks.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall (2-5) across much of southern Illinois through the afternoon and evening of the 15th. The heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding north of Golconda where a creek overflowed its banks.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed over northeast Illinois during the afternoon on October 2nd. These thunderstorms caused significant wind damage across parts of the Chicago Metro Area.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms tracked southeastward along a warm front draped across parts of southeast Iowa, northeast Missouri, and west central Illinois during the early morning hours of June 5. The storms produced hail, gusty winds, and heavy rain as they moved across the area.
Read the full account →A supercell thunderstorm moved across northeast Illinois including Chicago and the western suburbs during the late afternoon and early evening of June 13th. Widespread significant wind damage occurred in many areas and two tornadoes occurred.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms dumped up to 5 inches of rain in short time. Flash flooding was reported in LaPlace, Bement and Atwood. Ten homes in LaPlace sustained some damage from the flood waters and IL Rt. 32 was flooded for a couple of hours.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front moving east through Iowa. By the evening, a surface low had developed along the cold front as it moved into Eastern Iowa.
Read the full account →A line of showers and thunderstorms tracked east northwest Illinois Tuesday evening bringing damaging wind, occasional lightning, and heavy rain. The strong thunderstorm winds gusts of 60 to 70 MPH were reported at several locations in northwest Illinois.
Read the full account →Clusters of slow-moving thunderstorms developed along an outflow boundary across southeast Illinois during the late afternoon and early evening of July 27th.
Read the full account →A pre-frontal trough interacting with a seasonably warm and moist airmass triggered a couple bands of thunderstorms across central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of August 12th.
Read the full account →A pre-frontal trough interacting with a seasonably warm and moist airmass triggered a couple bands of thunderstorms across central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of August 12th.
Read the full account →Isolated storms developed in an area where dewpoints in the low to mid 70s pooled. There was some weak surface convergence, ML CAPEs over 2000 J/kg, and steep low-level lapse rates, so there were some localized damaging microbursts with the severe storms.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain during the morning of September 11th. A narrow swath of torrential rain fell across portions of the north side of Chicago causing widespread flash flooding and at least 2,000 basements to flood.
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