2,894 first-hand accounts of flood events in Missouri, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 →A strong cold front and deep upper level trough affected the region from the early morning of the 10th through the mid-morning hours of the 11th. While some sporadic hail and wind reports were received, this system was much more of a heavy rainfall producer.
Read the full account →The Current, Black, and St. Francis Rivers rose above flood stage late in the month. A series of heavy rainfall events gradually forced the rivers upward at an unsteady rate. Another round of heavy rain in early May sent some of the rivers to record high flood crests.
Read the full account →Torrential rainfall amounts from 6 to 12 inches occurred over a two-day period, causing an historic flood event. A very slow-moving cold front over southwest Illinois and southeast Missouri provided the focus for prolonged heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.
Read the full account →A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms with torrential rainfall formed during the peak heating of the afternoon. The storms formed along a weak front oriented from northwest to southeast from east central Missouri into southwest Kentucky and middle Tennessee.
Read the full account →A north to south band of extremely heavy ran fell in a 6 hour period during the early morning hours of July 12th. Widespread 3 to 6 inch rainfall occurred from just west of Hermitage to Bolivar to Springfield.
Read the full account →During the morning and early afternoon hours of July 1st, heavy rainfall yielded flash flooding across much of the southern two thirds of Jackson County. A swath of 3 to 6 of rain with isolated locations up to 7 fell within about a 3 hour time period from about 930 am to 1230 pm.
Read the full account →During the morning and early afternoon hours of July 1st, heavy rainfall yielded flash flooding across much of the southern two thirds of Jackson County. A swath of 3 to 6 of rain with isolated locations up to 7 fell within about a 3 hour time period from about 930 am to 1230 pm.
Read the full account →Widespread flooding continued from April into May across southeast Missouri. Following excessive rain in April, a final dose of heavy rain came between April 30 and May 2. Numerous rounds of showers and thunderstorms produced additional average rainfall amounts of 4 to 6 inches.
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 →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 prolonged period of rainfall occurred from the early morning hours of December 26th to the evening of December 28th. The heaviest rainfall occurred in a 50 to 75 mile wide swath from southwest Missouri through the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area and into central Illinois.
Read the full account →An extraordinary flood took place on the Mississippi River in June, resulting from two major rainfall events in Wisconsin and Iowa. The Wisconsin flooding resulted from two separate events, totaling more than 10 inches of rain over most of the southern third of the state.
Read the full account →A storm complex that developed over the Foothills of the Rockies in eastern Wyoming on the afternoon of the 25th charged southeastward into northwest Missouri during the morning of the 26th.
Read the full account →Several shortwaves moved through the region with several waves of showers and storms through the evening on August 25th and into the early morning hours on August 26th. Up to 6 inches of rain fell, along and just south of I-70 over portions of east central Missouri.
Read the full account →Several shortwaves moved through the region with several waves of showers and storms through the evening on August 25th and into the early morning hours on August 26th. Up to 6 inches of rain fell, along and just south of I-70 over portions of east central Missouri.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the Arkansas border focused several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall across extreme southwest Missouri and central Missouri from the early morning of the 16th to the morning of the 17th.
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 →Widespread flooding continued from April into May across southeast Missouri. Following excessive rain in April, a final dose of heavy rain came between April 30 and May 2. Numerous rounds of showers and thunderstorms produced additional average rainfall amounts of 4 to 6 inches.
Read the full account →A levee failed along the Missouri River near Petersburg, Missouri. Areas along the north bank of the river became inundated with several feet of running water as the river spilled out of of the levee banks.
Read the full account →A levee failed along the Missouri River near Petersburg, Missouri. Areas along the north bank of the river became inundated with several feet of running water as the river spilled out of of the levee banks.
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