928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
During the overnight, a slow moving convective cluster within an environment with a strong low-level jet and abundant deep-layer moisture slid from western to southern Minnesota.
Read the full account →During the overnight, a slow moving convective cluster within an environment with a strong low-level jet and abundant deep-layer moisture slid from western to southern Minnesota.
Read the full account →During the overnight, a slow moving convective cluster within an environment with a strong low-level jet and abundant deep-layer moisture slid from western to southern Minnesota.
Read the full account →Scattered storms developed near the South Dakota and Minnesota border during the early evening on June 28th, then quickly strengthened into discrete supercells as they progressed into west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Scattered storms developed near the South Dakota and Minnesota border during the early evening on June 28th, then quickly strengthened into discrete supercells as they progressed into west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →A large scale mid-to-upper-level trough was moving across the northern plains on the afternoon of June 26th. Immediately ahead of this progressing wave was a mesoscale convective vortex moving out of the Missouri River Valley.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area.
Read the full account →After a relatively dry start to the month, a potent late summer storm system brought very heavy rain to parts of southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa on September14 and September15.
Read the full account →A strong area of low pressure moved northward across the upper midwest and combined with unseasonable early Spring gulf moisture to cause a large area of heavy rainfall. Local rainfall totals were in the two to three inch range before the system moved north of the region.
Read the full account →A broad area of storms and rain inundated parts of western Minnesota. The COOP in Ortonville would record 5.42 inches of rainfall between June 12th and June 13th. ||Flooding would impact many small streams and creeks in the area.
Read the full account →During the overnight, a slow moving convective cluster within an environment with a strong low-level jet and abundant deep-layer moisture slid from western to southern Minnesota.
Read the full account →Scattered storms developed near the South Dakota and Minnesota border during the early evening on June 28th, then quickly strengthened into discrete supercells as they progressed into west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Scattered storms developed near the South Dakota and Minnesota border during the early evening on June 28th, then quickly strengthened into discrete supercells as they progressed into west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Early morning thunderstorms along a nearly stationary front, dumped heavy rain on parts of southeast Minnesota on August 22nd. The heavy rain produced flash flooding in Rochester (Olmsted County) that snarled the morning commute by flooding numerous intersections and sent water…
Read the full account →After 3 to 4 inches of rain hit the area during the early morning of July 9, similar amounts in the early morning hours of July 10 caused extensive flash flooding, especially in Spring Valley.
Read the full account →Torrential downpours fell from a line of thunderstorms that trained over south central Minnesota between the evening of the 8th and the pre-dawn hours of the 9th.
Read the full account →By the early evening of July 11th, surface low pressure was located over northeast South Dakota, with a warm front extending out to the east into Minnesota. Slow moving thunderstorms formed north of the warm front and dropped large amounts of rain.
Read the full account →By the early evening of July 11th, surface low pressure was located over northeast South Dakota, with a warm front extending out to the east into Minnesota. Slow moving thunderstorms formed north of the warm front and dropped large amounts of rain.
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