1,445 first-hand accounts of flood events in Indiana, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
8 to 10 inches of rain fell across central Indiana during the Labor Day weekend causing major flooding along parts of the White River. In fact, Indianapolis received the most rain ever for a calendar day (7.2 inches) breaking the old record set in 1895 (6.8 inches).
Read the full account →Flash flooding and record river flooding occurred over the southern sections of the Northern Indiana County Warning Area starting July 4th and 5th with river flooding abating by July 14th.
Read the full account →From from the evening of July 4th and overnight July 5th, 8 to 13 inches of rain fell across parts of Howard, and Carroll counties as storms trained across that area. Numerous storms moved across this area as well through July 11th.
Read the full account →Massive and historic flooding struck central Indiana. In Indiana alone, flood waters affected over 25,000 people. This flood affected about 9% of the state's farmland. The Great Flood of June 2008 was one of Indiana's costliest natural disasters.
Read the full account →The Wabash, White, Patoka, and Ohio Rivers rose back above flood stage late in the month. These river rises were in response to a series of nearly stationary fronts and outflow boundaries between the 16th and 24th.
Read the full account →The Wabash, White, Patoka, and Ohio Rivers rose back above flood stage late in the month. These river rises were in response to a series of nearly stationary fronts and outflow boundaries between the 16th and 24th.
Read the full account →Warm and humid conditions with dewpoints in the low 70s fueled an early evening cluster of thunderstorms southwest of Indianapolis. A moist profile promoted efficient rainfall production, with resultant bands of torrential downpours training from northeast of Gosport into far…
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon interacted with a surface front to produce widespread heavy rain across much of central Indiana. The moisture content of the atmosphere was very high.
Read the full account →Minor flooding occurred on the Ohio River for much of April. Even though rainfall was pretty close to normal in April, flooding continued from March because the moist ground was primed for more flooding.
Read the full account →A low pressure system moved into the forecast area bringing plentiful moisture and produced thunderstorms and waves of moderate to heavy rain to central Indiana around February 7th. The storms produced a tornado in a strong shear and low instability environment.
Read the full account →A low pressure system moved into the forecast area bringing plentiful moisture and produced thunderstorms and waves of moderate to heavy rain to central Indiana around February 7th. The storms produced a tornado in a strong shear and low instability environment.
Read the full account →Several places saw damaging winds topple trees into roads, cars, and a house. The storms started to develop over White and Benton counties with a general motion to the south east. By the time the storms reached Tippecanoe county they had strengthened enough to become severe.
Read the full account →An unseasonably warm and moist air mass was in place across the region during the morning hours of March 1st. Showers and thunderstorms developed across the Ohio Valley during the early morning hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast into the Great Lakes region.
Read the full account →Several rounds of heavy rain in the days leading up to the severe weather on 26th. Some areas experienced flooding. Two lines of strong storms then swept through the northern and western portions of the CWA from 3p-9p. Several storms in the first line exhibited rotation.
Read the full account →An unseasonably warm and humid air mass developed across the lower Ohio Valley toward late April 2017. A powerful storm system across the central Plains brought several rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms to the region.
Read the full account →A series of upper level disturbances moved from the Upper Midwest into the lower Ohio Valley and interacted with a moist, warm and unstable atmosphere. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed and then organized into bowing segments across the area.
Read the full account →Central Indiana saw severe weather and flooding June 15th through the 17th. A warm front brought severe storms, tornadoes, and heavy rain on June 15th. The stalled front and upper waves brought more heavy rain and some severe storms on June 16th and 17th.
Read the full account →During the evening, clusters of storms developed just north of a surface warm front that extended from the Missouri bootheel northeastward along the Ohio River.
Read the full account →During the evening, clusters of storms developed just north of a surface warm front that extended from the Missouri bootheel northeastward along the Ohio River.
Read the full account →Several places saw damaging winds topple trees into roads, cars, and a house. The storms started to develop over White and Benton counties with a general motion to the south east. By the time the storms reached Tippecanoe county they had strengthened enough to become severe.
Read the full account →On August 10th, an intense derecho brought severe to extreme winds to much of the Midwest with winds estimated as high as 130 to 140 mph in Iowa.
Read the full account →During the evening hours of June 3rd a series of thunderstorms brought pockets of severe weather to portions of central Indiana. A few thunderstorms became severe north of the Indianapolis metro which led to thunderstorm wind damage.
Read the full account →A low pressure system moved into the forecast area bringing plentiful moisture and produced thunderstorms and waves of moderate to heavy rain to central Indiana around February 7th. The storms produced a tornado in a strong shear and low instability environment.
Read the full account →A low pressure system moved into the forecast area bringing plentiful moisture and produced thunderstorms and waves of moderate to heavy rain to central Indiana around February 7th. The storms produced a tornado in a strong shear and low instability environment.
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