4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted northward into the area Friday, May 24, sparking widespread thunderstorms in the morning/early afternoon time frame and again in the early evening. Two tornadoes were occurred in McDonough County during the early afternoon.
Read the full account →Mid to late May rainfall across portions of northeast Iowa kept soil moisture high and river levels generally elevated. Heavier rainfalls around the Waterloo area and to the north, including portions of the Cedar River basin, overnight on the 27th into the morning of the 28th…
Read the full account →October started with another round of showers and storms moving across northeast Iowa. Some of these storms produced locally heavy rains across the southeast section of Clayton County.
Read the full account →October started with another round of showers and storms moving across northeast Iowa. Some of these storms produced locally heavy rains across the southeast section of Clayton County.
Read the full account →Several moderate to heavy rain events in southwest Iowa and eastern Nebraska combined with increased upstream flows due to snow melt and rainfall caused the Missouri River to flood around and downstream of Nebraska City beginning a little after the middle of April and persisted…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms refired during the afternoon hours. The caused repeated flooding in areas where 2 to 3 inches of rain was common during the morning.
Read the full account →Storms from the 14th into the 15th resulted in severe weather and heavy rainfall. A number of stations and reports of 4 inches or greater rainfall were received in and around Story County.
Read the full account →The wet pattern continued over Iowa with another round of significant rainfall taking place on the 4th into the 5th. Rivers that had fallen below food stage returned to a minor flood state due to rainfall on already saturated soils.
Read the full account →A winter storm passed through the region on January 22nd. The path of the storm brought rain and warm air to much of northeast Iowa. Rainfall amounts averaged a half inch to 1.25 inches, but with frozen ground, most of this ran off into area rivers and streams.
Read the full account →A winter storm passed through the region on January 22nd. The path of the storm brought rain and warm air to much of northeast Iowa. Rainfall amounts averaged a half inch to 1.25 inches, but with frozen ground, most of this ran off into area rivers and streams.
Read the full account →A winter storm passed through the region on January 22nd. The path of the storm brought rain and warm air to much of northeast Iowa. Rainfall amounts averaged a half inch to 1.25 inches, but with frozen ground, most of this ran off into area rivers and streams.
Read the full account →A winter storm passed through the region on January 22nd. The path of the storm brought rain and warm air to much of northeast Iowa. Rainfall amounts averaged a half inch to 1.25 inches, but with frozen ground, most of this ran off into area rivers and streams.
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