928 first-hand accounts of flood events in Minnesota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Accumulating snowfall across the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains was extensive during the 2009/2010 winter with snowfall water equivalent amounts across the Minnesota River Valley as high as six inches.
Read the full account →A line of thunderstorms moved across southeast Minnesota during the late afternoon and evening of June 28th. These storms produced three brief EF-0 tornadoes across Olmsted County.
Read the full account →During the evening of June 16th, a weak frontal boundary stretched north-northeast from Watertown in South Dakota, up through Wadena and International Falls in Minnesota.
Read the full account →During the evening of June 16th, a weak frontal boundary stretched north-northeast from Watertown in South Dakota, up through Wadena and International Falls in Minnesota.
Read the full account →Spurred by a period of excessive precipitation from September 10-12 that resulted in 5 to 10 inches of rainfall near the South Dakota border and 2 to 5 inches toward the east, extreme rises occurred on numerous creeks and rivers mid-month, with many basin locations reaching…
Read the full account →Spurred by a period of excessive precipitation from September 10-12 that resulted in 5 to 10 inches of rainfall near the South Dakota border and 2 to 5 inches toward the east, extreme rises occurred on numerous creeks and rivers mid-month, with many basin locations reaching…
Read the full account →The Red River crested at a new high for the century in Fargo on April 18th. 150 homes in the Oakport Township north of Moorhead were flooded. The river came up through the storm sewers in Moorhead and blew off several manhole covers.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Two to four inches rain fell on saturated ground. The most severe damage occured in Santiago (Sherburne County), where a dike along County Road 11 gave way and allowed water to come crashing into town.
Read the full account →The winter brought 45.3 inches of snow to the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks area, which is slightly above the average of 40 inches. Snow water contents across Polk county ranged from 1.5 to 2.5 inches.
Read the full account →Water levels on the Mississippi River rose to near record levels due to a combination of snow melt runoff and heavy rains. In fact, only the all-time flood of record in April 1965 produced higher water than that recorded in April 2001.
Read the full account →Water levels on the Mississippi River rose to near record levels due to a combination of snow melt runoff and heavy rains. In fact, only the all-time flood of record in April 1965 produced higher water than that recorded in April 2001.
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 →3 to 6 inches of rain fell during the night of May 31 into the morning hours of June 1, causing widespread flash flooding. Hardest hit was Spring Valley (Fillmore County), where residents of 25 homes had to be evacuated and people in 3 homes were rescued by boat.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Two to four inches rain fell on saturated ground. The most severe damage occured in Santiago (Sherburne County), where a dike along County Road 11 gave way and allowed water to come crashing into town.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms that developed across west central Minnesota early Saturday morning, July 13th, moved southeast across central, east central and south central Minnesota by daybreak.
Read the full account →A warm front lifting northward into Iowa triggered round after round of thunderstorms with excessive rainfall across southeast Minnesota during the evening and overnight hours of August 18-19. This was after rain had fallen earlier in the day.
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