928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A low pressure system moved northward from the Central Plains to the Northern Plains on May 12th and lifted a warm front across the Northland bringing two rounds of storms to the region.
Read the full account →Spring snowmelt, record April precipitation and frequent May rain events led to strong hydrologic responses within the Rainy Lake basin. Namakan Lake, Kabetogama Lake and Rainy Lake rose above the flood of record during the months of May and June before subsiding in July and…
Read the full account →Spring snowmelt, record April precipitation and frequent May rain events led to strong hydrologic responses within the Rainy Lake basin. Namakan Lake, Kabetogama Lake and Rainy Lake rose above the flood of record during the months of May and June before subsiding in July and…
Read the full account →Two rounds of storms moved across southeast Minnesota on July 23rd. The first occurred in the afternoon and produced two tornadoes, wind damage and large hail. A brief EF0 tornado occurred south of Fremont (Winona County) that produced mainly tree damage.
Read the full account →Spring snowmelt, record April precipitation and frequent May rain events led to strong hydrologic responses within the Rainy Lake basin. Namakan Lake, Kabetogama Lake and Rainy Lake rose above the flood of record during the months of May and June before subsiding in July and…
Read the full account →Spring snowmelt, record April precipitation and frequent May rain events led to strong hydrologic responses within the Rainy Lake basin. Namakan Lake, Kabetogama Lake and Rainy Lake rose above the flood of record during the months of May and June before subsiding in July and…
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening on the Independence Day Federal Holiday resulted in damaging wind gusts across northwest and west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening on the Independence Day Federal Holiday resulted in damaging wind gusts across northwest and west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →On the morning of July 21st, a cluster of showers and thunderstorms containing heavy rainfall developed over the Twin Cities metropolitan area along a slow-moving surface frontal boundary.
Read the full account →On Sunday evening June 2 and into Monday June 3, a round of strong storms developed across eastern SD and southwestern MN along a stationary boundary. These storms produced a brief tornado in Renville County, wind damage in Morrison County, and small hail in Stevens County.
Read the full account →Another night in the long duration heat wave brought another round of nocturnal convection. Early in the morning of the 19th, a weak surface boundary set up across northern South Dakota into west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Flooding rains across southeast Minnesota caused the Root River to rise to unprecedented levels. In fact, a record crest of 52.2 feet was recorded at Hokah (Houston County) on June 2.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →Rapid snowmelt from a few day period of well above normal temperatures focused on the 11-13th of April resulted in minor to locally moderate flooding through much of the Big Sioux River Basin.
Read the full account →A compact, well-defined, upper level disturbance tracked along and south of Interstate 94 during the late afternoon and early evening of the 16th. It was an extremely slow moving feature, as wind speeds were very weak.
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 →As the low level jet increased late in the evening of the 23rd and the early morning of the 24th, it transported very warm, moist, and unstable air into southeast North Dakota and west central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms dumped 1 to 3 inches of rain on soils already saturated from recent heavy rain. In Adams (Mower County), water was up to the doors of businesses as residents sandbagged.
Read the full account →A second mesoscale convective system in as many nights developed across southeast South Dakota and southwest Minnesota in the late afternoon and early evening in response to a weak mid-level wave and warm advection over a stalled frontal boundary to the south.
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