2,894 first-hand accounts of flood events in Missouri, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
The river flood season got off to an early start as the year 2020 opened. Rather mild and wet conditions continued into the new year. Rainfall totals across the region were 1 to over 3 inches above normal for January.
Read the full account →Several rounds of strong to severe storms developed from the evening of the 1st to the early morning of the 3rd as a surface low pressure system tracked from western Kansas southeastward into Red River Valley.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →During the afternoon, a line of thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall. These storms occurred just south of a warm front under a very strong southwest low level flow, around 60 knots at 850 mb. An upper level disturbance over the Ozark Mountains contributed to the storms.
Read the full account →During the afternoon, a line of thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall. These storms occurred just south of a warm front under a very strong southwest low level flow, around 60 knots at 850 mb. An upper level disturbance over the Ozark Mountains contributed to the storms.
Read the full account →Several rounds of strong to severe storms developed from the evening of the 1st to the early morning of the 3rd as a surface low pressure system tracked from western Kansas southeastward into Red River Valley.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two areas of storm activity affected the region during the morning hours. Storms that developed over western Kansas on the evening of the 23rd tracked eastward into southeast Kansas and western Missouri during the morning of the 24th.
Read the full account →Two small but intense bowing thunderstorm clusters moved rapidly east/southeastward across southeast Missouri during the late afternoon hours.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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