2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Short lines of thunderstorms with embedded circulations moved across southern Illinois during the afternoon of the 19th. Widespread heavy rain caused isolated flash flooding.
Read the full account →An upper-level low drifted slowly eastward across the northern Plains, with a band of moderately strong southwesterly flow aloft overspreading portions of the mid Mississippi Valley.
Read the full account →Another round of afternoon and evening thunderstorms occurred. Strong solar heating ahead of an upper level disturbance over Missouri kicked off scattered to numerous thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms tracked eastward across parts of eastern Iowa and northern Illinois on Memorial Day 2019 as a low pressure system lifted a warm front through the region. | |Some of the storms produced tornadoes during the early to mid afternoon hours.
Read the full account →A cold front sagging into southeast Illinois triggered showers and thunderstorms south of the I-70 corridor during the morning of May 23rd. One cell produced a brief tornado southwest of Xenia in Clay County, while other storms dropped heavy rainfall and caused localized flash…
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida moved north-northeast across the lower Mississippi Valley, spreading moisture northward. Some frontal forcing in the mid levels of the atmosphere across southern Indiana and southern Illinois initiated scattered showers and thunderstorms, some…
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Minor flooding continued from late January into the first week of February on the Ohio, Wabash, and Little Wabash Rivers. The flooding was minor, consisting mostly of flooded bottomland fields, woodlands, and public park and recreation areas.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms moved across portions of central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 12th. One storm moved very slowly over eastern La Salle and western Grundy Counties.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms moved across portions of central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 12th. One storm moved very slowly over eastern La Salle and western Grundy Counties.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms moved across portions of central Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 12th. One storm moved very slowly over eastern La Salle and western Grundy Counties.
Read the full account →Widely scattered thunderstorms developed along old convective outflow boundaries during the afternoon and evening of July 8th. Some of the cells produced damaging wind gusts of 50-60mph, small hail, and locally heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Widely scattered thunderstorms developed along old convective outflow boundaries during the afternoon and evening of July 8th. Some of the cells produced damaging wind gusts of 50-60mph, small hail, and locally heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →An unseasonably deep upper-level low slowly meandered eastward into Illinois on June 21st. Scattered thunderstorms developed beneath this feature during the afternoon, with many of the cells producing funnel clouds.
Read the full account →Numerous round of showers and thunderstorms moved across northwest Illinois during the day on the 22nd as a storm system interacted with numerous outflow boundaries and a quasi stationary front that remained across the area.
Read the full account →A slow-moving cold front interacting with a warm and very humid airmass resulted in scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of June 27th.
Read the full account →Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms dropped 1 to 4 inches of rain quickly across parts of Rock Island and Whiteside Counties during the evening of the 27th into the early morning hours of the 28th.
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