2,894 first-hand accounts of flood events in Missouri, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A stalled frontal boundary led to multiple rounds of thunderstorms which trained over the same areas and produced intense rainfall rates and rainfall totals.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary led to multiple rounds of thunderstorms which trained over the same areas and produced intense rainfall rates and rainfall totals.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of storms producing heavy rainfall, severe winds, hail and tornadoes moved across the Missouri Ozarks from May 20th and into the early morning hours of May 24th as upper level disturbances interacted with a slow moving but powerful storm system over the central…
Read the full account →Flooding along parts of the Mississippi River exceeded the Great Flood of 1993. The primary rainfall event that triggered the historic flooding was a swath of 6 to 12 inches across central Missouri from December 26 to 28.
Read the full account →North of the confluence of the Ohio River, the Mississippi River remained above flood stage all month. At the Cape Girardeau river gage, the river crested at 41.43 feet on the 4th. Flood stage is 32 feet. This flooding was considered moderate.
Read the full account →A series of heavy rainfall events in April, followed by another heavy rainfall event in early May, kept the Mississippi and St. Francis Rivers above flood stage for all or most of the month.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
Read the full account →During the afternoon and evening of the 10th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front over eastern Oklahoma and southeast Kansas before spreading northeast into the Missouri Ozarks through the early morning of the 11th.
Read the full account →During the afternoon and evening of the 10th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front over eastern Oklahoma and southeast Kansas before spreading northeast into the Missouri Ozarks through the early morning of the 11th.
Read the full account →During the afternoon and evening of the 10th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front over eastern Oklahoma and southeast Kansas before spreading northeast into the Missouri Ozarks through the early morning of the 11th.
Read the full account →During the afternoon and evening of the 10th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front over eastern Oklahoma and southeast Kansas before spreading northeast into the Missouri Ozarks through the early morning of the 11th.
Read the full account →The combination of very weak flow aloft and an anomalously unstable and moist environment along a residual outflow boundary promoted the development of thunderstorms across the mid Mississippi and lower Ohio Valleys through the late afternoon into mid evening.
Read the full account →A moist and unstable air mass interacted with several upper level disturbances and a very slow moving upper level low pressure system to bring heavy rain to the region.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary led to multiple rounds of thunderstorms which trained over the same areas and produced intense rainfall rates and rainfall totals.
Read the full account →Storms developed during the afternoon and early evening as a very moist and unstable air mass interacted with upper level energy and an approaching cold front.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary led to multiple rounds of thunderstorms which trained over the same areas and produced intense rainfall rates and rainfall totals.
Read the full account →Two clusters of strong to severe storms that developed to the west and northwest of the Ozarks affected southeast Kansas and west central Missouri.
Read the full account →Major flooding continued on parts of the Mississippi River through the month of June. The region remained stuck in a long-term wet pattern that continued through the spring and into early summer. Most locations were 1 to 2 inches above normal for the month of June.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and extremely heavy rainfall over several days led to historic and devastating flash floods, record breaking river levels, large hail, wind damage, and at least one tornado across the Missouri Ozarks region.
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