4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Mississippi River at Burlington going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on June 22 around 230 pm. It crested around 16.95 feet around 1 pm June 26.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred on the mainstem Mississippi largely due to the record snowfall this winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, frozen ground, rapid snowmelt during the middle of April, and saturated soils.
Read the full account →In the wake of a morning mesoscale convective system (MCS) across Nebraska, storms refired during the evening hours across northwest Iowa within fairly weak deep-layer shear and up to 2000 J/kg MUCAPE.
Read the full account →In the wake of a morning mesoscale convective system (MCS) across Nebraska, storms refired during the evening hours across northwest Iowa within fairly weak deep-layer shear and up to 2000 J/kg MUCAPE.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the middle of the month resulted in the English River at Kalona going above the moderate flood stage level of 16 feet on June 21st around 930 pm. It crested around 17.64 feet around 6 am on June 22.
Read the full account →The second of two squall lines that developed in western Iowa the night of 21 May 2004 moved across Eastern Iowa and Northwest Illinois during the morning hours.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall across northern Iowa and southern Minnesota sent a wave of flood water south along the Des Moines River The upper reaches flooded earlier in the month with the water reaching farther south after mid month.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the middle of the month resulted in the Iowa River at Lone Tree going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on June 22nd around 830 am. It crested around 16.6 feet around 1230 pm June 22.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the middle of the month resulted in the Iowa River at Lone Tree going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on June 22nd around 830 am. It crested around 16.6 feet around 1230 pm June 22.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the first week of July resulted in the Des Moines River at Keosauqua going above the moderate flood stage level of 25 feet around 8 pm July 5. It crested around 25.8 feet around 7 am CDT July 6.
Read the full account →Widespread flooding from June continued along several river systems across the state into July. For the most part, rivers crested early and then fell slowly during the first week of the month.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the second week of May resulted in the Des Moines River at St. Francisville going above the moderate flood stage level of 22 feet on May 13 around 6 am. It crested around 23 feet around 7 am May 13.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms continued to develop across eastern Nebraska and Iowa as the stationary frontal boundary remained in place across the area. Heavy rains fell on already saturated ground over northern Iowa.
Read the full account →Water continued to flow at above normal levels through the Des Moines River system. In addition, another round of heavy rainfall moved through Iowa, especially the water soaked southern half. Flooding took place on several streams across the south.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the middle of the month resulted in the Iowa River at Wapello going above the moderate flood stage level of 22 feet on June 22nd around 3 pm. It crested around 22.4 feet around 1130 pm June 23. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 130 pm June 23.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the first week of July resulted in the Skunk River at Sigourney going above the moderate flood stage level of 18 feet around 10 pm July 5. It crested around 18.2 feet around 1 am CDT July 6. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 5 am CDT July 6.
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