4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A couple rounds of showers and thunderstorms moved slowly across portions of northeast Iowa during the morning hours of June 8th. Rainfall amounts of 1 to 4 inches were common across Mitchell and Floyd Counties.
Read the full account →A midlevel shortwave moved through the area producing storms with severe criteria hail and wind gusts. In Council Bluffs, 2 to 3 inches of rain fell over about an hour which led to a flash flood warning being issued.
Read the full account →A midlevel shortwave moved through the area producing storms with severe criteria hail and wind gusts. In Council Bluffs, 2 to 3 inches of rain fell over about an hour which led to a flash flood warning being issued.
Read the full account →A midlevel shortwave moved through the area producing storms with severe criteria hail and wind gusts. In Council Bluffs, 2 to 3 inches of rain fell over about an hour which led to a flash flood warning being issued.
Read the full account →A midlevel shortwave moved through the area producing storms with severe criteria hail and wind gusts. In Council Bluffs, 2 to 3 inches of rain fell over about an hour which led to a flash flood warning being issued.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms tracked eastward across parts of eastern Iowa and northern Illinois on Memorial Day 2019 as a low pressure system lifted a warm front through the region. | |Some of the storms produced tornadoes during the early to mid afternoon hours.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms tracked eastward across parts of eastern Iowa and northern Illinois on Memorial Day 2019 as a low pressure system lifted a warm front through the region. | |Some of the storms produced tornadoes during the early to mid afternoon hours.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →Many rivers were in flood at the end of May and the wet period continued into June. Some points went out of flood through early June, and a few continued until mid June.
Read the full account →A low level jet developed the first of two squall lines in western iowa that raced east across Iowa and Illinois. The first squall line travelled north of the stationary front across Iowa and Northern Illinois.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed a little after midnight on June 27th in northeast Nebraska as an upper level disturbance pushed a cold front across the region.
Read the full account →After an early morning flash flood event in eastern Iowa, with some damaging winds near the Mississippi River, a line of slow moving supercell thunderstorms moved southeast from northern Iowa, into portions of eastern Iowa the evening of June 9th.
Read the full account →After an early morning flash flood event in eastern Iowa, with some damaging winds near the Mississippi River, a line of slow moving supercell thunderstorms moved southeast from northern Iowa, into portions of eastern Iowa the evening of June 9th.
Read the full account →After an early morning flash flood event in eastern Iowa, with some damaging winds near the Mississippi River, a line of slow moving supercell thunderstorms moved southeast from northern Iowa, into portions of eastern Iowa the evening of June 9th.
Read the full account →After an early morning flash flood event in eastern Iowa, with some damaging winds near the Mississippi River, a line of slow moving supercell thunderstorms moved southeast from northern Iowa, into portions of eastern Iowa the evening of June 9th.
Read the full account →After an early morning flash flood event in eastern Iowa, with some damaging winds near the Mississippi River, a line of slow moving supercell thunderstorms moved southeast from northern Iowa, into portions of eastern Iowa the evening of June 9th.
Read the full account →After an early morning flash flood event in eastern Iowa, with some damaging winds near the Mississippi River, a line of slow moving supercell thunderstorms moved southeast from northern Iowa, into portions of eastern Iowa the evening of June 9th.
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