2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A slow-moving isolated thunderstorm dropped 1 to 2 inches of rain in a short amount of time across northeast Champaign County during the late afternoon of July 9th, leading to widespread flash flooding in Rantoul.
Read the full account →A cold front triggered clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the afternoon of July 19th. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 5 inches produced flash flooding across portions of Edgar and Clark counties.
Read the full account →A cold front triggered clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the afternoon of July 19th. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 5 inches produced flash flooding across portions of Edgar and Clark counties.
Read the full account →A cold front triggered clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the afternoon of July 19th. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 5 inches produced flash flooding across portions of Edgar and Clark counties.
Read the full account →A cold front triggered clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the afternoon of July 19th. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 5 inches produced flash flooding across portions of Edgar and Clark counties.
Read the full account →A cold front triggered clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the afternoon of July 19th. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 5 inches produced flash flooding across portions of Edgar and Clark counties.
Read the full account →A cold front triggered clusters of thunderstorms across east-central Illinois during the afternoon of July 19th. Heavy rainfall of 4 to 5 inches produced flash flooding across portions of Edgar and Clark counties.
Read the full account →Numerous slow-moving thunderstorms developed near a stationary front that extended from southeast Missouri across the southern tip of Illinois to western Kentucky.
Read the full account →Slow-moving thunderstorms over saturated ground caused localized flash flooding during the afternoon hours. An upper-level disturbance advancing quickly southeast across western Illinois promoted the growth of thunderstorms along an outflow boundary extending from southwest…
Read the full account →Low pressure tracked from near Kansas City on the morning of July 15th to southern Lake Michigan by midnight on July 16th. The low interacted with an unstable and very moist environment to produce a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over eastern Kansas into Missouri, which then…
Read the full account →Low pressure tracked from near Kansas City on the morning of July 15th to southern Lake Michigan by midnight on July 16th. The low interacted with an unstable and very moist environment to produce a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over eastern Kansas into Missouri, which then…
Read the full account →Low pressure tracked from near Kansas City on the morning of July 15th to southern Lake Michigan by midnight on July 16th. The low interacted with an unstable and very moist environment to produce a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over eastern Kansas into Missouri, which then…
Read the full account →Organized clusters of strong to isolated severe thunderstorms moved into southwest Illinois during the late afternoon and evening. A 500 mb disturbance over northwest Missouri moved east-southeast toward west central Illinois during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Organized clusters of strong to isolated severe thunderstorms moved into southwest Illinois during the late afternoon and evening. A 500 mb disturbance over northwest Missouri moved east-southeast toward west central Illinois during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Low pressure tracked from near Kansas City on the morning of July 15th to southern Lake Michigan by midnight on July 16th. The low interacted with an unstable and very moist environment to produce a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over eastern Kansas into Missouri, which then…
Read the full account →Low pressure tracked from near Kansas City on the morning of July 15th to southern Lake Michigan by midnight on July 16th. The low interacted with an unstable and very moist environment to produce a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over eastern Kansas into Missouri, which then…
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along a surface warm front that lifted slowly north across western Kentucky and southern Illinois in the afternoon. Soils were quite saturated from recent heavy rains, causing rapid runoff and isolated flash flooding.
Read the full account →Numerous slow-moving thunderstorms developed near a stationary front that extended from southeast Missouri across the southern tip of Illinois to western Kentucky.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced very heavy rain across the lower Ohio Valley. The storms occurred in a moist and unstable air mass ahead of a slow-moving 500 mb disturbance over south central Illinois.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms tracked across central Iowa into eastern Iowa, northeast Missouri, and northwest Illinois late Friday afternoon and into the overnight hours. These storms brought heavy rain, frequent lightning, damaging winds, and large hail to the region.
Read the full account →Storms that developed in the early afternoon took advantage of the very high instability and had no trouble becoming strong, and even severe, in a short amount of time.
Read the full account →An extended period of showers and thunderstorms affected the area June 3-5. The second round of thunderstorms occurred on June 3rd as a weak upper level disturbance moved across the area and interacted with a hot and humid air mass to produce thunderstorms across Scott and…
Read the full account →Large clusters of thunderstorms during the early morning hours produced locally excessive rainfall. The storms occurred ahead of a very compact disturbance in the upper levels of the atmosphere over areas of far west central Illinois.
Read the full account →Large clusters of thunderstorms during the early morning hours produced locally excessive rainfall. The storms occurred ahead of a very compact disturbance in the upper levels of the atmosphere over areas of far west central Illinois.
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