928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A one in 500 year rainfall hit northeast Minnesota and far northwestern Wisconsin June 19th and 20th. An east to west front stalled just south of the area, across southern Minnesota and central Wisconsin early on June 19th: There was high humidity and record-breaking heat to…
Read the full account →A stationary front set up across southern Minnesota on the evening of September 22nd. As an unusually moist air mass flowed over this boundary, heavy rain developed and fell repeatedly across the area during the evening and overnight hours.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River crested in April 2001 at levels second only to the all-time flood of record, which occurred in April 1965. In spite of the river slowly receding, water levels remained above flood stage, resulting in continued flooding until the middle of May.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River crested in April 2001 at levels second only to the all-time flood of record, which occurred in April 1965. In spite of the river slowly receding, water levels remained above flood stage, resulting in continued flooding until the middle of May.
Read the full account →A warm front extended east to west across the Upper Mississippi Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall. In fact, these storms exhibited very high rainfall rates, which led to 1 to 2 inch rainfall amounts in an hour or so.
Read the full account →Isolated severe storms near Redwood Falls and Albert Lea moved northeast across east central and southeast Minnesota during the early morning hours of Sunday, June 23rd.
Read the full account →A warm front lifting northward into Iowa triggered round after round of thunderstorms with excessive rainfall across southeast Minnesota during the evening and overnight hours of August 18-19. This was after rain had fallen earlier in the day.
Read the full account →A warm front extended east to west across the Upper Mississippi Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall. In fact, these storms exhibited very high rainfall rates, which led to 1 to 2 inch rainfall amounts in an hour or so.
Read the full account →Diking helped prevent the town of St. Vincent from being flooded, but could not save the small town of Robbin. The river was estimated to be 20 miles wide north of Drayton, ND, and 25 miles wide near St. Vincent.
Read the full account →Spurred by a period of excessive precipitation from September 10-12 that resulted in 5 to 10 inches of rainfall near the South Dakota border and 2 to 5 inches toward the east, extreme rises occurred on numerous creeks and rivers mid-month, with many basin locations reaching…
Read the full account →Lingering snowpack with a high water content, combined with three heavy rainfall events during the month of April, led to significant flooding along parts of the Mississippi River, Sandy River, and Big Sandy Lake.
Read the full account →A warm front lifting northward into Iowa triggered round after round of thunderstorms with excessive rainfall across southeast Minnesota during the evening and overnight hours of August 18-19. This was after rain had fallen earlier in the day.
Read the full account →Five to 13 inches of rain fell across South Central Minnesota between 5 PM on the 14th and 5 AM on the 15th. This amount of rainfall caused widespread major flooding in Freeborn, Steele, Faribault, and Martin counties.
Read the full account →A line of thunderstorms moved across southeast Minnesota during the late afternoon and evening of June 28th. These storms produced three brief EF-0 tornadoes across Olmsted County.
Read the full account →A strong storm system, in combination with deep moisture from the remnants of a tropical system, produced a large area of flooding rainfall with amounts as high as 8 and 11 inches in an 18 hour period.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across western Minnesota the afternoon of Tuesday, August 16th. These thunderstorms continued to develop eastward across central Minnesota, and into east central Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin.
Read the full account →Accumulating snowfall across the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains was extensive during the 2009/2010 winter with snowfall water equivalent amounts across the Minnesota River Valley as high as six inches.
Read the full account →Two to four inches rain fell on saturated ground. The most severe damage occured in Santiago (Sherburne County), where a dike along County Road 11 gave way and allowed water to come crashing into town.
Read the full account →The same intense low pressure system that brought high wind to southern Minnesota also dumped a large area of 3 to 4 inches rain across west central and central Minnesota, on top of melting snow and saturated ground.
Read the full account →A warm front extended east to west across the Upper Mississippi Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall. In fact, these storms exhibited very high rainfall rates, which led to 1 to 2 inch rainfall amounts in an hour or so.
Read the full account →A stationary front set up across southern Minnesota on the evening of September 22nd. As an unusually moist air mass flowed over this boundary, heavy rain developed and fell repeatedly across the area during the evening and overnight hours.
Read the full account →Isolated severe storms near Redwood Falls and Albert Lea moved northeast across east central and southeast Minnesota during the early morning hours of Sunday, June 23rd.
Read the full account →By the early afternoon of May 30th, an area of surface low pressure had moved into north central South Dakota. A warm frontal boundary extended from the low up into east central North Dakota. South of this boundary, or south of U. S.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms fired up by the afternoon of the 9th, over western Benson County, North Dakota. This area had managed to get slightly better afternoon heating and humidity, although just a little further to the east, the Devils Lake airport only topped out at 74F at 3 pm CST.
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