2,894 first-hand accounts of flood events in Missouri, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →Two rounds of storms affected mainly areas north of Interstate 44 from the morning of the 28th to the morning of the 29th. Rainfall accumulations were highest over central Missouri, where a band of two to over four inches produced flash flooding in Camden and Benton Counties.
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 →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 →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 →A southerly wind flow of very moist and unstable air fed a slow-moving thunderstorm complex. To the south of the storm complex, surface dew points were in the lower 70's and instability was quite high.
Read the full account →Very moist and unstable conditions developed over the Missouri Ozarks ahead of an intense low pressure system over the southern Plains. Widespread severe storms developed over Oklahoma and eastern Kansas during the early morning hours and tracked eastward into the Springfield…
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 →A slow moving cold front and upper level storm system, combined to bring severe thunderstorms and heavy rains to the region, late on May 5th through May 6th, 2007. Several rounds of heavy rain were observed across northwest Missouri, from near St.
Read the full account →Loosely organized clusters of thunderstorms produced isolated damaging winds, flash flooding, and large hail. A mesoscale vorticity center from earlier thunderstorms moved eastward across southern Missouri during the afternoon.
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 →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 →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 →Widespread thunderstorms, including a few severe thunderstorms, occurred during the evening hours. A powerful mid-level shortwave trough and its associated 70-80 knot jet streak translated from the southern high Plains into the upper Midwest.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system became cut off over the Southern Plains leading to multiple rounds of storms from the latter half of Memorial Day Weekend into much of the following work week.
Read the full account →Two rounds of storms moved over the region from the early morning hours to late afternoon. The first round developed shortly after midnight along an elevated warm front moving northward from the Red River Valley into southwest Missouri.
Read the full account →A persistent large upper level trough over the southwest U.S. ejected many upper level disturbances that interacted with weak surface boundaries and deep moisture over the region. On the 19th, strong storms and heavy rainfall occurred.
Read the full account →A persistent large upper level trough over the southwest U.S. ejected many upper level disturbances that interacted with weak surface boundaries and deep moisture over the region. On the 19th, strong storms and heavy rainfall occurred.
Read the full account →A persistent large upper level trough over the southwest U.S. ejected many upper level disturbances that interacted with weak surface boundaries and deep moisture over the region. On the 19th, strong storms and heavy rainfall occurred.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms containing very heavy rainfall over West Central Missouri on October 4th resulted in several episodes of major flash flooding. The most deadly and costly flooding occurred in Jackson County where nine people lost their lives on the evening of October 4th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms containing very heavy rainfall over West Central Missouri on October 4th resulted in several episodes of major flash flooding. The most deadly and costly flooding occurred in Jackson County where nine people lost their lives on the evening of October 4th.
Read the full account →A southerly wind flow of very moist and unstable air fed a slow-moving thunderstorm complex. To the south of the storm complex, surface dew points were in the lower 70's and instability was quite high.
Read the full account →The flash flooding event on the 7th and early 8th, became a major flooding event across all of southern and central Missouri through the early afternoon of May 9th.
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