928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
During the very early morning hours of Friday, August 14th, sporadic slow moving severe thunderstorms formed across portions of west central Minnesota. These resulted in reports of large hail, strong wind gusts, and flash flooding.
Read the full account →During the very early morning hours of Friday, August 14th, sporadic slow moving severe thunderstorms formed across portions of west central Minnesota. These resulted in reports of large hail, strong wind gusts, and flash flooding.
Read the full account →During the very early morning hours of Friday, August 14th, sporadic slow moving severe thunderstorms formed across portions of west central Minnesota. These resulted in reports of large hail, strong wind gusts, and flash flooding.
Read the full account →Flash flooding impacted parts of southeast Minnesota during the early morning hours of September 7th. Thunderstorms with heavy rain dumped 4 to 7 inches of rain that caused the flash flooding in Fillmore and Houston Counties.
Read the full account →An EF-1 tornado moved across rural portions of far northeast Fillmore County into southwest Winona County. The tornado started northwest of Rushford (Fillmore County) and was on the ground for about 5 minutes causing minor damage to a house and trees.
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 →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 →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 Red River was reported to be 10 miles wide as it reached Norman county. Several days of strong west winds produced whitecaps that threatened dikes in Perley and Hendrum. Both these towns were evacuated, with only essential people remaining to fight the flood.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms began during the week of June 14th, and continued through most of the week with areas of flash flooding. The flash flooding evolved into areal flooding, and then main-stem river flooding which continued through the end of the month.
Read the full account →A band of showers and thunderstorms moved slowly across parts of southeast Minnesota during the evening of July 5th. These storms dropped between 2 and 6 inches of rain across the central portions of Dodge County into western Olmsted County.
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 →The headwaters of the Red River received the most snow over the course of the winter. Snow water equivalents of 4 to 5 inches were measured from the snowpack over this area. As the snowmelt progressed through early April, several heavy rain events occurred.
Read the full account →The winter brought 52.5 inches of snow to the Fargo-Moorhead area, which was above the average of 40 inches. The snow water content over Clay county ranged from 2.5 to 3.5 inches.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall on the 8th and 9th caused widespread flooding over Norman county. Unofficial reports of up to 12 inches of rain were received. This caused the Wild Rice River at Twin Valley to rise to a level of 17.4 feet on the 9th.
Read the full account →An EF-1 tornado moved across rural portions of far northeast Fillmore County into southwest Winona County. The tornado started northwest of Rushford (Fillmore County) and was on the ground for about 5 minutes causing minor damage to a house and trees.
Read the full account →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 →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 →At the terminus of a 35 to 40 knot low-level jet, significant moisture transport and convergence contributed to several hours of slow-moving thunderstorms which traversed across the same locations.
Read the full account →Repeated rounds of thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across portions of southeast Minnesota on August 11th. This heavy rain produced flash flooding across portions of Wabasha County. Mudslides and washouts occurred along U.S.
Read the full account →A line of severe thunderstorms moved across southeast Minnesota during the late afternoon of July 19th. These storms produced two EF-1 tornadoes. The first touched down in the Chester Woods Park near Chester (Olmsted County) and did extensive tree damage in the park.
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 →Several waves of thunderstorms moved across central and southern Minnesota, and into west central Wisconsin between the late afternoon of Wednesday, August 10th, through Thursday morning, August 11th.
Read the full account →A second crest on the Red River in Breckenridge occurred on April 15th. Record releases from White Rock Dam, the source of the Bois de Sioux River, helped cause the second crest.
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