4,632 first-hand accounts of flood events in Iowa, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Episodes of heavy rainfall of about 5 to 15 inches over a 10 day period in much of northeast Iowa caused the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage from Independence to DeWitt, about two to seven days after the end of the heavy rain events.
Read the full account →Episodes of heavy rainfall of about 5 to 15 inches over a 10 day period in much of northeast Iowa caused the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage from Independence to DeWitt, about two to seven days after the end of the heavy rain events.
Read the full account →A cold front moved through the state during the afternoon and evening hours of the 17th of July, eventually stalling out and lingering across central and southern Iowa.
Read the full account →A cold front moved through the state during the afternoon and evening hours of the 17th of July, eventually stalling out and lingering across central and southern Iowa.
Read the full account →A few rivers went into flood across portions of central and southern Iowa as the snow melted across the area. Some of the flooding on the lower portion of the Des Moines River south of Saylorville occurred due to output from local reservoirs such as Saylorville Lake and Lake Red…
Read the full account →Rainfall of one to three inches on frozen ground and into a snow pack with between 1 and 3 inches of liquid water equivalent resulted in considerable areal flooding and flooding of small streams.
Read the full account →A boundary oriented southwest to northeast slowly made its way into and across Iowa from the northwest through the 19th and early into the 20th.
Read the full account →A shortwave lifting northeastward from Missouri and a slow moving mesoscale convective vorticity maximum interacted with a warm and humid air mass across eastern Iowa and brought showers and thunderstorms that produced heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary was draped across Iowa northwest and central Iowa, roughly in a southwest to northeast orientation, providing a focusing mechanism for storms to initiate.
Read the full account →Spurred by a period of excessive precipitation from September 10-12 that resulted in 5 to 10 inches of rainfall in the upper reaches of the Big Sioux River Basin and 2 to 5 inches from Sioux Falls southward, rises occurred mid-month that routed downstream to cause minor flooding…
Read the full account →Episodes of heavy rainfall of about 5 to 15 inches over a 10 day period in much of northeast Iowa caused the Iowa River to rise above major flood stage at Marengo, about two to three days after the end of the heavy rain events.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River remained high through the month of April due to a combination of snow melt and several rounds of heavy rain. Rain in the second half of the month caused the Mississippi River to rise back above major flood stage during the last week of April.
Read the full account →Another round of heavy rain fell across northeast Iowa on October 8th and 9th with amounts up to two inches. The ground was still saturated from earlier rainfall in late September and early October and the runoff from the rains on the 8th and 9th caused flooding along the Turkey…
Read the full account →Another round of heavy rain fell across northeast Iowa on October 8th and 9th with amounts up to two inches. The ground was still saturated from earlier rainfall in late September and early October and the runoff from the rains on the 8th and 9th caused flooding along the Turkey…
Read the full account →Another round of heavy rain fell across northeast Iowa on October 8th and 9th with amounts up to two inches. The ground was still saturated from earlier rainfall in late September and early October and the runoff from the rains on the 8th and 9th caused flooding along the Turkey…
Read the full account →River levels remained high across much of the state through the middle of April, so additional rainfall sent the West Fork of the Des Moines River at Emmetsburg back into flood through a portion of mid-April.
Read the full account →A slowly northward moving boundary/warm front was draped across the area throughout the day. By the evening vigorous storms fired up just north of the boundary and continued as the low level jet began to pick up. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds were reported.
Read the full account →A slowly northward moving boundary/warm front was draped across the area throughout the day. By the evening vigorous storms fired up just north of the boundary and continued as the low level jet began to pick up. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds were reported.
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