2,894 first-hand accounts of flood events in Missouri, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A very moist airmass led to the development of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall rates during the morning and afternoon of June 4th. Significant flash flooding occurred in and around the city of Marshfield.
Read the full account →A very moist airmass led to the development of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall rates during the morning and afternoon of June 4th. Significant flash flooding occurred in and around the city of Marshfield.
Read the full account →A very moist airmass led to the development of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall rates during the morning and afternoon of June 4th. Significant flash flooding occurred in and around the city of Marshfield.
Read the full account →A very moist airmass led to the development of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall rates during the morning and afternoon of June 4th. Significant flash flooding occurred in and around the city of Marshfield.
Read the full account →After a broad area of rain moved through the region earlier in the day, a boundary sagged slowly south through the Ozarks. This boundary became the focus for rounds of rain and storms.
Read the full account →After a broad area of rain moved through the region earlier in the day, a boundary sagged slowly south through the Ozarks. This boundary became the focus for rounds of rain and storms.
Read the full account →After a broad area of rain moved through the region earlier in the day, a boundary sagged slowly south through the Ozarks. This boundary became the focus for rounds of rain and storms.
Read the full account →After a broad area of rain moved through the region earlier in the day, a boundary sagged slowly south through the Ozarks. This boundary became the focus for rounds of rain and storms.
Read the full account →After a broad area of rain moved through the region earlier in the day, a boundary sagged slowly south through the Ozarks. This boundary became the focus for rounds of rain and storms.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms initiated along and ahead of a quasi-stationary boundary during the afternoon of July 7th. The environment was characterized by high moisture and instability and weak shear, leading to gusty winds being the primary threat for the day.
Read the full account →A surface low pressure system moved northward from the western Gulf coast to the middle Mississippi Valley. A strong southerly wind flow associated with this system brought copious amounts of moisture northward.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River was above the 32-foot flood stage at Cape Girardeau for almost the entire month. The primary crest of 37.8 feet occurred on the 10th, then the river fell below flood stage for a few days from the 15th to the 18th.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms occurred along a nearly stationary surface front that extended from northern Arkansas northeast across the Lower Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →Several rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across the region. Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches created pockets of road flooding and raised small rivers above flood stage.
Read the full account →A prolonged flooding event on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, that began in the middle of February, continued into March at Hickman Kentucky. Minor flooding of bottomland continued in Mississippi County.
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed in Kansas and Oklahoma behind a lifting warm front during the late evening hours of November 19 before pushing into southwest Missouri in the early morning of November 20.
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed in Kansas and Oklahoma behind a lifting warm front during the late evening hours of November 19 before pushing into southwest Missouri in the early morning of November 20.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved through southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks during the morning hours on Wednesday, April 2nd, producing a tornado in Nevada and damaging winds.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved through southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks during the morning hours on Wednesday, April 2nd, producing a tornado in Nevada and damaging winds.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved through southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks during the morning hours on Wednesday, April 2nd, producing a tornado in Nevada and damaging winds.
Read the full account →Heavy rains during the third week of August resulted in the Des Moines River at St. Francisville going above the moderate flood stage level of 22 feet on August 21 around 820 am CDT. It crested around 22.24 feet around 12 pm CDT August 21.
Read the full account →A stationary front draped across the region and a persistent, moist southerly low level flow into this boundary produced two rounds of heavy rainfall across portions of the Missouri Ozarks.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in early May, culminating in the May 8th severe weather and flooding event, resulted in rising river on the Mississippi River, with Thebes returning to minor flood and Hickman reaching minor flood in the following days.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in early May, culminating in the May 8th severe weather and flooding event, resulted in rising river on the Mississippi River, with Thebes returning to minor flood and Hickman reaching minor flood in the following days.
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