928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall with a late winter storm drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With 1 to 3 inches of snow water equivalent still in the snow pack south of Interstate 90 and 3 to 6 inches of snow water equivalent north of Interstate 90,…
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall with a late winter storm drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With 1 to 3 inches of snow water equivalent still in the snow pack south of Interstate 90 and 3 to 6 inches of snow water equivalent north of Interstate 90,…
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With frozen and impervious ground, full and rapid runoff was maximized.
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall with a late winter storm drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With 1 to 3 inches of snow water equivalent still in the snow pack south of Interstate 90 and 3 to 6 inches of snow water equivalent north of Interstate 90,…
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall with a late winter storm drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With 1 to 3 inches of snow water equivalent still in the snow pack south of Interstate 90 and 3 to 6 inches of snow water equivalent north of Interstate 90,…
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall with a late winter storm drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With 1 to 3 inches of snow water equivalent still in the snow pack south of Interstate 90 and 3 to 6 inches of snow water equivalent north of Interstate 90,…
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With frozen and impervious ground, full and rapid runoff was maximized.
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With frozen and impervious ground, full and rapid runoff was maximized.
Read the full account →As an area of low pressure moved across the Upper Midwest, thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of Memorial Day (May 27th) across portions of southeast Minnesota. These storms quickly became severe and produced four tornadoes across Fillmore County.
Read the full account →A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With frozen and impervious ground, full and rapid runoff was maximized.
Read the full account →A slow moving and powerful winter storm spread snow across the Northland starting the evening of the 29th and brought a few waves of snow into the afternoon of the 30th.
Read the full account →A slow moving and powerful winter storm spread snow across the Northland starting the evening of the 29th and brought a few waves of snow into the afternoon of the 30th.
Read the full account →A stationary front extended from central Minnesota into central Wisconsin on July 16. Thunderstorms developed and remained nearly stationary over extreme southeast Minnesota during the evening hours. This produced very heavy rainfall of up to four inches in La Crescent.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across southeast Minnesota during the late morning of August 7th and continued into the early afternoon. Some of these storms dropped up to quarter sized hail on the north side of Rochester (Olmsted County) and near Goodview (Winona County).
Read the full account →Flash flooding was caused when 3 to 4 inches of rain fell in a couple hours. Law enforcement officials reported cars stalled in knee deep water on Interstate 90 near Austin (Mower County).
Read the full account →A cold front crossed into the northwest quarter of Minnesota late on the night of the 18th into the early morning hours of the 19th. Thunderstorms fired up along the boundary, from Red Lake Falls to Fosston to Bemidji, producing large hail, strong winds, and heavy amounts of…
Read the full account →Rainfall totals of 2 to 4 inches during the late evening and early morning of June 11-12 continued to pose flooding problems in parts of southeast Minnesota.
Read the full account →Rainfall totals of 2 to 4 inches during the late evening and early morning of June 11-12 continued to pose flooding problems in parts of southeast Minnesota.
Read the full account →A cold front moved slowly into southeast Minnesota during the late evening hours on September 30th and the early morning hours of October 1st. Thunderstorms along and ahead of the cold front produced excessive rainfall amounts of up to 3 inches in two hours.
Read the full account →A stationary front extended from central Minnesota into central Wisconsin on July 16. Thunderstorms developed and remained nearly stationary over extreme southeast Minnesota during the evening hours. This produced very heavy rainfall of up to four inches in La Crescent.
Read the full account →A weak area of low pressure moved along the International Border on the 16th and led to the development of a few slow moving storms across northern Minnesota.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms along a stationary boundary starting Friday, June 15th, and persisting through the day June 16th, acted to saturate soils across portions of northeast Minnesota.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms along a stationary boundary starting Friday, June 15th, and persisting through the day June 16th, acted to saturate soils across portions of northeast Minnesota.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms along a stationary boundary starting Friday, June 15th, and persisting through the day June 16th, acted to saturate soils across portions of northeast Minnesota.
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