928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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.
Read the full account →A complex of storms moved from South Dakota, eastward into southern Minnesota the morning of Saturday, June 9th. Rainfall rates were nearly 2 inches per hour as thunderstorms began to train along the Minnesota River around Belle Plaine and Carver.
Read the full account →During the overnight hours of Tuesday, July 3rd, a persistent line of storms, with rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour, moved very little from Marshall to Redwood Falls, Olivia, then southward to Tracy, Lamberton, and Springfield, Minnesota.
Read the full account →A line of thunderstorms moved across southeast Minnesota during the afternoon of September 17th. These storms mainly produced wind gusts in the 40 to 50 mph range, which was enough to cause some damage.
Read the full account →Two lines of severe thunderstorms moved across southeast Minnesota during the afternoon and evening of June 30th. These storms dropped some hail and also produced damaging winds. Quarter sized hail fell near Preston (Fillmore County) and Winona (Winona County).
Read the full account →Thunderstorms produced rainfall amounts of up to 3.5 inches in less than two hours, causing a mudslide, which closed part of Highway 61 near Pickwick.
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 →Thunderstorms produced as much as 3 inches of rain in three hours during the late evening and early morning of June 11-12. Hardest hit was the Austin area, where flooding affected most of the city. In fact, people were rescued from vehicles submerged in high water.
Read the full account →Numerous outflow boundaries from overnight convection re-fired across southwest Minnesota around mid afternoon as diurnal heating weakened the cap and increased MLCAPE to around 2000 J/kg.
Read the full account →Numerous outflow boundaries from overnight convection re-fired across southwest Minnesota around mid afternoon as diurnal heating weakened the cap and increased MLCAPE to around 2000 J/kg.
Read the full account →Several rounds of severe thunderstorms traversed the region starting on the evening of April 22nd. Initially, large hail was the primary concern, with an increasingly tornadic environment heading into April 23rd.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms deposited very heavy rainfall on portions of the Twin Cities metropolitan area in a short period of time resulting in severe basement and street flooding and a number of collapsed basements.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across southeast Minnesota during the afternoon of September 12th. The runoff from the heavy rain prompted officials to close Interstate 90 in Austin (Mower County) when standing water covered all the lanes of traffic, stranding some…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across southeast Minnesota during the afternoon of September 12th. The runoff from the heavy rain prompted officials to close Interstate 90 in Austin (Mower County) when standing water covered all the lanes of traffic, stranding some…
Read the full account →Rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches in 1 to 2 hours triggered flash flooding during the early morning hours. The driver of a van had to be rescued when their vehicle stalled in two feet of water covering Highway 52 south of Rochester.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system pushed across south central Canada on Tuesday (July 14th), and its trough of low pressure developed strong thunderstorms over the southern Red River Valley and West Central Minnesota.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms produced as much as 3 inches of rain in three hours during the late evening and early morning of June 11-12. Hardest hit was the Austin area, where flooding affected most of the city. In fact, people were rescued from vehicles submerged in high water.
Read the full account →The third and final day of a three day severe weather event across the Northland. A stalled out frontal system finally made a push across the area leading to another round of severe storms and heavy rainfall over areas that had seen dramatic flash flooding the previous night.
Read the full account →The third and final day of a three day severe weather event across the Northland. A stalled out frontal system finally made a push across the area leading to another round of severe storms and heavy rainfall over areas that had seen dramatic flash flooding the previous night.
Read the full account →The third and final day of a three day severe weather event across the Northland. A stalled out frontal system finally made a push across the area leading to another round of severe storms and heavy rainfall over areas that had seen dramatic flash flooding the previous night.
Read the full account →A band of heavy rain developed along a warm front that lifted north through southern and central Minnesota during the afternoon and early evening of August 16. Small low-topped supercells developed within the band and produced numerous tornadoes.
Read the full account →A complex of thunderstorms formed overnight in northern Minnesota then tracked southeast through the early morning hours along an instability gradient.
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