2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A cold front interacting with a warm and very humid airmass triggered several lines of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of June 7th.
Read the full account →A cold front dropping slowly southward from the Upper Midwest interacted with a hot and humid airmass to trigger thunderstorms across north-central Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 10th.
Read the full account →A cold front dropping slowly southward from the Upper Midwest interacted with a hot and humid airmass to trigger thunderstorms across north-central Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 10th.
Read the full account →A slow-moving cold front interacting with an unseasonably warm and moist airmass triggered several rounds of showers and thunderstorms across central Illinois on September 18th.
Read the full account →A cold front interacting with a warm and very humid airmass triggered several lines of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of June 7th.
Read the full account →A cold front interacting with a warm and very humid airmass triggered several lines of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of June 7th.
Read the full account →A cold front dropping slowly southward from the Upper Midwest interacted with a hot and humid airmass to trigger thunderstorms across north-central Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 10th.
Read the full account →Low pressure tracking across north-central Illinois triggered widespread showers and thunderstorms during the evening of June 28th. Some of the storms produced damaging wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph and hail as large as ping-pong balls.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms developed along and north of a warm front extending from northern Missouri into southern Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 11th.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms developed along and north of a warm front extending from northern Missouri into southern Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 11th.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms developed along and north of a warm front extending from northern Missouri into southern Illinois during the afternoon and evening of July 11th.
Read the full account →Widespread rain occurred across central and southeast Illinois from June 19th through June 20th as remnants of Tropical Storm Bill tracked slowly northeastward from the Ozarks into the Ohio River Valley.
Read the full account →Widespread rain occurred across central and southeast Illinois from June 19th through June 20th as remnants of Tropical Storm Bill tracked slowly northeastward from the Ozarks into the Ohio River Valley.
Read the full account →Light to moderate rain fell across central Illinois throughout the day on July 8th. As an area of low pressure tracked northward through the area, pockets of heavy rain developed during the evening hours.
Read the full account →A cold front interacting with a warm and very humid airmass triggered several lines of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of June 7th.
Read the full account →A cold front interacting with a warm and very humid airmass triggered several lines of strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of June 7th.
Read the full account →A multi-faceted storm system brought several periods of heavy rain to central and southeast Illinois from December 26th through 28th. The system began to spread rain into the region from the southwest during the early morning hours of Saturday, December 26th, with the rain…
Read the full account →A multi-faceted storm system brought several periods of heavy rain to central and southeast Illinois from December 26th through 28th. The system began to spread rain into the region from the southwest during the early morning hours of Saturday, December 26th, with the rain…
Read the full account →A multi-faceted storm system brought several periods of heavy rain to central and southeast Illinois from December 26th through 28th. The system began to spread rain into the region from the southwest during the early morning hours of Saturday, December 26th, with the rain…
Read the full account →A multi-faceted storm system brought several periods of heavy rain to central and southeast Illinois from December 26th through 28th. The system began to spread rain into the region from the southwest during the early morning hours of Saturday, December 26th, with the rain…
Read the full account →A multi-faceted storm system brought several periods of heavy rain to central and southeast Illinois from December 26th through 28th. The system began to spread rain into the region from the southwest during the early morning hours of Saturday, December 26th, with the rain…
Read the full account →A multi-faceted storm system brought several periods of heavy rain to central and southeast Illinois from December 26th through 28th. The system began to spread rain into the region from the southwest during the early morning hours of Saturday, December 26th, with the rain…
Read the full account →A prolonged period of rainfall occurred from the early morning hours of December 26th to the evening of December 28th. The heaviest rainfall occurred in a 50 to 75 mile wide swath from southwest Missouri through the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area and into central Illinois.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of rainfall occurred from the early morning hours of December 26th to the evening of December 28th. The heaviest rainfall occurred in a 50 to 75 mile wide swath from southwest Missouri through the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area and into central Illinois.
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