1,445 first-hand accounts of flood events in Indiana, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Major flooding occurred along the Whitewater river in East-Central and Southeast Indiana. The river level below Brookville lake reached its highest stage since 1968.
Read the full account →A complex of slow moving thunderstorms moved across Indiana during the early morning hours July 12th and slowly tracked into southern Indiana shortly before dawn.
Read the full account →Northwest flow in the upper atmosphere allowed multiple waves to move across the area. The atmosphere had a high moisture content and was unstable. The waves interacted with the moisture and instability to produce the severe weather and heavy rain.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in March set the stage for major flooding when near-record rains fell in April and May. At Evansville, April was the second wettest April on record with 11.77 inches.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in March set the stage for major flooding when near-record rains fell in April and May. At Evansville, April was the second wettest April on record with 11.77 inches.
Read the full account →Widespread flooding struck central Indiana in February. Some of the same areas heavily flooded during January were once again flooded to near record levels. February flooding was more widespread and persisted longer than flooding during January.
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell across the Ohio valley on the 1st and 2nd with some areas upstream over Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky receiving up to 12 inches.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a hot and unstable atmosphere across central Indiana during the afternoon and early evening of July 17th. The storms produced 2 tornadoes in southeast Tippecanoe County along with some hail and strong winds elsewhere.
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell on already saturated ground resulting in numerous road closures and some washouts. By the morning of the 12th, as much as 9 inches of rain had fallen across parts of Tippecanoe and Clinton counties since the evening of the 10th.
Read the full account →Torrential rainfall amounts from 5 to 9 inches occurred over a two-day period, causing a major flood event. A very slow-moving cold front over southwest Illinois and southeast Missouri provided the focus for prolonged heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A series of heavy rainfall events in April, followed by another heavy rainfall event in early May, kept the Wabash, White, and Patoka Rivers above flood stage for most of the month. Some of the river flooding was major.
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 →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 →A slow-moving cold front passed across the region between the 20th and 22nd. Several upper level disturbances moved north-northeast along the front, touching off numerous showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Waves of low pressure moved along a strong cold front on November 5th, generating strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours.
Read the full account →A couple bands of showers and thunderstorms developed across the northwest half of central Indiana during the late afternoon and evening of July 10th. Some locations saw multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms leading to flash flooding.
Read the full account →In Gibson County, a van was swept off a road between Fort Branch and Haubstadt. Numerous roads in Gibson County were reportedly covered by water. In Pike County, flash flooding washed out two bridges and several culverts. Several mudslides occurred along roads.
Read the full account →A line of showers and thunderstorms dropped south across central Indiana during the afternoon and early evening of June the 13th as a cold front pushed south through the area. A few storms within the line produced some damaging straight line winds.
Read the full account →Massive and historic flash flooding struck central Indiana. The Great Flood of June 2008 was one of Indiana's costliest natural disasters. Major roads and interstates flooded. Heavy rainfall on May 30th allowed streams and rivers to rise.
Read the full account →The remnants of hurricane Ike moved across northwest Indiana during the morning hours of September 14th. This system produced a second round of very heavy rain after a period of heavy rain just 24 hours earlier across many of the same areas.
Read the full account →The Wabash River was above flood stage for nearly the entire month at both Mt. Carmel and New Harmony. Major flooding occurred at Mount Carmel, where the river crested at 32.4 feet on May 17. Flood stage there is 19 feet.
Read the full account →All of the snow cover from the historic pre-Christmas 2004 snow storm melted by New Year's Day 2005 as the dew point temperatures rose into the 50s. Lowland flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in Jackson County.
Read the full account →All of the snow cover from the historic pre-Christmas 2004 snow storm melted by New Year's Day 2005 as the dew point temperatures rose into the 50s. Lowland flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in Jackson County.
Read the full account →All of the snow cover from the historic pre-Christmas 2004 snow storm melted by New Year's Day 2005 as the dew point temperatures rose into the 50s. Lowland flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in Jackson County.
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