4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →After a dry month in March, April turned around and was a wet month across Iowa. The first significant rainfall event took place on the 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from repeated thunderstorms in late September caused a number of rivers in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa to go into flood. Much of the flooding was minor, but flooding along the Salt Creek and associated tributaries was more significant and in some locations…
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from repeated thunderstorms in late September caused a number of rivers in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa to go into flood. Much of the flooding was minor, but flooding along the Salt Creek and associated tributaries was more significant and in some locations…
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from repeated thunderstorms in late September caused a number of rivers in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa to go into flood. Much of the flooding was minor, but flooding along the Salt Creek and associated tributaries was more significant and in some locations…
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from repeated thunderstorms in late September caused a number of rivers in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa to go into flood. Much of the flooding was minor, but flooding along the Salt Creek and associated tributaries was more significant and in some locations…
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall took place over southern Iowa with over an inch of rainfall occurring on already moist antecedent soil conditions. The Chariton River had two relatively minor crests between the 8th and the 14th.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall took place over southern Iowa with over an inch of rainfall occurring on already moist antecedent soil conditions. The Chariton River had two relatively minor crests between the 8th and the 14th.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall took place over southern Iowa with over an inch of rainfall occurring on already moist antecedent soil conditions. The Chariton River had two relatively minor crests between the 8th and the 14th.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall occurred from late May through early June in south central Iowa into parts of southeast Iowa. A strong MCS moved across the state on the 1st, causing the flooding.
Read the full account →With daytime heating, showers and thunderstorms developed and raced east across eastern Iowa and northern Illinois during the late afternoon and evening of June 21. Some were severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
Read the full account →Storms developed along a weak surface boundary within a moisture-rich environment with weak mean-layer flow. Slow moving storms produced rainfall rates of 3 to 4 inches per hour, with amounts of 3.09 inches reported by a cooperative weather observer near Wakefield and personal…
Read the full account →Storms developed along a weak surface boundary within a moisture-rich environment with weak mean-layer flow. Slow moving storms produced rainfall rates of 3 to 4 inches per hour, with amounts of 3.09 inches reported by a cooperative weather observer near Wakefield and personal…
Read the full account →River levels remained high along the Des Moines River system from the rains that fell during June. Additional rainfall during the month of July helped to maintain high river levels.
Read the full account →River levels remained high along the Des Moines River system from the rains that fell during June. Additional rainfall during the month of July helped to maintain high river levels.
Read the full account →River levels remained high along the Des Moines River system from the rains that fell during June. Additional rainfall during the month of July helped to maintain high river levels.
Read the full account →Heavy rain-producing showers and thunderstorms moved across parts of southeast Iowa, northeast Missouri, and western Illinois during the late evening of June 14 and early morning of June 15.
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