4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →April 2001 began with continued minor to moderate snowmelt flooding in portions of the Iowa, Cedar and Des Moines River basins. The first significant rainfall of the month affected much of the Des Moines Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) on the 5th as scattered showers and the…
Read the full account →Soil conditions were nearly saturated across northern Iowa from the snow melt of the previous month. An elevated convection event took place with thunderstorms producing hail and heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Hot weather resulted in daily episodes of clusters of storms with damaging winds, isolated hail, and some areas of flash flooding from August 12 through August 18th. The most widespread activity occurred August 15th, and 18th, when several lines of storms moved through the area.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Several rounds of thunderstorms developed north of a warm front and trained across portions of northeast Iowa into Southwest Wisconsin during the evening of July 27th into the early morning hours of the 28th.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms developed north of a warm front and trained across portions of northeast Iowa into Southwest Wisconsin during the evening of July 27th into the early morning hours of the 28th.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the first week of August resulted in the Iowa River at Lone Tree going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on August 4 around 2 pm CDT. It crested around 17.6 feet around 7 am CDT August 5.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the first week of August resulted in the Iowa River at Lone Tree going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on August 4 around 2 pm CDT. It crested around 17.6 feet around 7 am CDT August 5.
Read the full account →Heavy rains fell across the area from the evening of September 22nd through the 23rd. Due to an abnormally wet summer and early September, widespread rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches caused flooding of rivers, creeks, and streams.
Read the full account →Another storm system moved across the state late in the month. The heaviest rain fell over the south half of the state. This resulted in a short duration flooding event along the lower Des Moines River Basin and its tributaries.
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