4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Spotty heavy rainfall on the 15th and 16th lead to significant rises on the Des Moines and Raccoon River Basins. The flooding was once again minor and restricted to low lying and agricultural lands.
Read the full account →Spotty heavy rainfall on the 15th and 16th lead to significant rises on the Des Moines and Raccoon River Basins. The flooding was once again minor and restricted to low lying and agricultural lands.
Read the full account →Spotty heavy rainfall on the 15th and 16th lead to significant rises on the Des Moines and Raccoon River Basins. The flooding was once again minor and restricted to low lying and agricultural lands.
Read the full account →Spotty heavy rainfall on the 15th and 16th lead to significant rises on the Des Moines and Raccoon River Basins. The flooding was once again minor and restricted to low lying and agricultural lands.
Read the full account →Spotty heavy rainfall on the 15th and 16th lead to significant rises on the Des Moines and Raccoon River Basins. The flooding was once again minor and restricted to low lying and agricultural lands.
Read the full account →Spotty heavy rainfall on the 15th and 16th lead to significant rises on the Des Moines and Raccoon River Basins. The flooding was once again minor and restricted to low lying and agricultural lands.
Read the full account →A stationary front draped across the region continued to bring cloudy skies, along with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms to the Mid-Mississippi Valley August 26. Rainfall totals ranged from three quarters of an inch up to 5 inches or more in some locations.
Read the full account →Snow melt continued into the middle of the month. Rivers remained ice covered in Northwest Iowa. Two ice jams formed in Emmet County in the Estherville area.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary front across the region was the focus for thunderstorms across northeast Iowa during the late afternoon and evening of August 19. Excessive rainfall amounts of 2 to 5 inches in two to three hours caused flash flooding.
Read the full account →A stalled storm system centered near Galesburg Illinois brought several rounds of showers and embedded thunderstorms to eastern Iowa through the day. These showers and thunderstorms were slow moving westward across the area and were efficient rainfall producers.
Read the full account →Additional heavy rainfall on the 25th and 26th continued to add problems to an already waterlogged state. For the most part, the rain fell over parts of central into the southern parts of Iowa.
Read the full account →Rainfall began to pick up across the state during the end of March and continue into April. More will be said on that later. The first flooding took place early in the month as heavy rainfall brushed northeast Iowa.
Read the full account →Nocturnal thunderstorms moved through during the early morning hours of Friday, May 24, 2019. A tornado watch was in effect. A flash flood watch was also in effect. A squall line developed, with several possible embedded tornadic rotations.
Read the full account →Periods of moderate to heavy rainfall are not uncommon throughout the spring and summer months, but given the very wet spring across Iowa, soils were primed and unable to hold copious amounts of new rainfall.
Read the full account →Strong to severe storms and heavy rainfall moved up into Iowa from northern Missouri during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 22nd of June.
Read the full account →Periods of moderate to heavy rainfall are not uncommon throughout the spring and summer months, but given the very wet spring across Iowa, soils were primed and unable to hold copious amounts of new rainfall.
Read the full account →Periods of moderate to heavy rainfall are not uncommon throughout the spring and summer months, but given the very wet spring across Iowa, soils were primed and unable to hold copious amounts of new rainfall.
Read the full account →Periods of moderate to heavy rainfall are not uncommon throughout the spring and summer months, but given the very wet spring across Iowa, soils were primed and unable to hold copious amounts of new rainfall.
Read the full account →A 971mb bomb cyclone moved out of the central Rockies on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 and helped to create widespread, moderate to major, and in many cases historic, flooding across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.
Read the full account →Strong to severe storms and heavy rainfall moved up into Iowa from northern Missouri during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 22nd of June.
Read the full account →During the evening of the 25th, a number of storms were able to initiate along a relatively stationary boundary situated across southern Iowa. On the warm side of the boundary surface conditions were in the mid 80s for temperature and upper 60s to low 70s dewpoints.
Read the full account →The setup was not spectacular for sustained or widespread severe weather, but did lay the ground for some isolated issues. SB/MUCAPE values built up into the 2000-4000 J/kg range by the early afternoon with the help of dew points into the low to mid 70s and at least…
Read the full account →The setup was not spectacular for sustained or widespread severe weather, but did lay the ground for some isolated issues. SB/MUCAPE values built up into the 2000-4000 J/kg range by the early afternoon with the help of dew points into the low to mid 70s and at least…
Read the full account →The setup was not spectacular for sustained or widespread severe weather, but did lay the ground for some isolated issues. SB/MUCAPE values built up into the 2000-4000 J/kg range by the early afternoon with the help of dew points into the low to mid 70s and at least…
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