2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A stationary frontal boundary interacting with an unseasonably moist airmass triggered several clusters of thunderstorms across north-central Illinois during the morning of May 30th.
Read the full account →Scattered slow-moving thunderstorms developed along old convective outflow boundaries during the afternoon and early evening of July 5th. Pockets of heavy rainfall occurred, with amounts exceeding 3 inches across portions of Peoria, Tazewell, and Vermilion counties.
Read the full account →Scattered slow-moving thunderstorms developed along old convective outflow boundaries during the afternoon and early evening of July 5th. Pockets of heavy rainfall occurred, with amounts exceeding 3 inches across portions of Peoria, Tazewell, and Vermilion counties.
Read the full account →Heavy rain impacted central and southeast Illinois as the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon tracked from Arkansas during the afternoon of September 7th to southern Ohio by the afternoon of September 9th.
Read the full account →Heavy rain impacted central and southeast Illinois as the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon tracked from Arkansas during the afternoon of September 7th to southern Ohio by the afternoon of September 9th.
Read the full account →Heavy rain impacted central and southeast Illinois as the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon tracked from Arkansas during the afternoon of September 7th to southern Ohio by the afternoon of September 9th.
Read the full account →Heavy rain impacted central and southeast Illinois as the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon tracked from Arkansas during the afternoon of September 7th to southern Ohio by the afternoon of September 9th.
Read the full account →Heavy rain impacted central and southeast Illinois as the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon tracked from Arkansas during the afternoon of September 7th to southern Ohio by the afternoon of September 9th.
Read the full account →Heavy rain impacted central and southeast Illinois as the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon tracked from Arkansas during the afternoon of September 7th to southern Ohio by the afternoon of September 9th.
Read the full account →A round of strong to severe thunderstorms brought excessive rainfall rates to portions of central Illinois during the evening of June 10th. Another round of thunderstorms developed along and north of a stationary frontal boundary during the pre-dawn hours of June 11th.
Read the full account →A round of strong to severe thunderstorms brought excessive rainfall rates to portions of central Illinois during the evening of June 10th. Another round of thunderstorms developed along and north of a stationary frontal boundary during the pre-dawn hours of June 11th.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure tracking along a nearly stationary frontal boundary triggered a round of severe thunderstorms across central Illinois during the afternoon of June 10th.
Read the full account →A severe thunderstorm complex raced southward across southern Illinois during the early evening hours. Widespread wind damage occurred with this long-lived complex, which met the definition of a derecho.
Read the full account →A loosely organized band of thunderstorms developed over southern Illinois during the heat of the afternoon, and then moved southeast. The strongest storm cells within this band produced strong gusty winds, including a few damaging wind events.
Read the full account →A loosely organized band of thunderstorms developed over southern Illinois during the heat of the afternoon, and then moved southeast. The strongest storm cells within this band produced strong gusty winds, including a few damaging wind events.
Read the full account →A large cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms organized over east central Illinois and then moved southeast across the lower Wabash Valley.
Read the full account →A surface low pressure center deepened as it moved northeast from Louisiana to western Tennessee. Aloft, a deep trough in the Desert Southwest moved east and developed into a closed low over the southern Plains.
Read the full account →Pockets of flash flooding occurred across southern Illinois. A narrow swath of torrential rainfall occurred from Cape Girardeau, MO northeast across the Marion/Carbondale area, where streets were closed.
Read the full account →Widespread river flooding was observed on the Ohio River for most of the month. Even though rainfall was pretty close to normal in April, flooding continued because the heavy rainfall in March primed the ground for more flooding.
Read the full account →Low pressure tracking across central Illinois triggered a line of fast-moving thunderstorms during the afternoon of April 3rd. The storms primarily impacted locations south of the I-72 corridor, with one cell embedded within the line producing an EF-1 tornado in southern…
Read the full account →A round of strong to severe thunderstorms brought excessive rainfall rates to portions of central Illinois during the evening of June 10th. Another round of thunderstorms developed along and north of a stationary frontal boundary during the pre-dawn hours of June 11th.
Read the full account →A series of weak impulses interacted with a stationary frontal boundary extending from northeast Missouri to southwest Indiana to produce several rounds of thunderstorms across south-central Illinois from the evening of June 11th into the morning of June 12th.
Read the full account →A series of weak impulses interacted with a stationary frontal boundary extending from northeast Missouri to southwest Indiana to produce several rounds of thunderstorms across south-central Illinois from the evening of June 11th into the morning of June 12th.
Read the full account →A round of strong to severe thunderstorms brought excessive rainfall rates to portions of central Illinois during the evening of June 10th. Another round of thunderstorms developed along and north of a stationary frontal boundary during the pre-dawn hours of June 11th.
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