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Missouri Flood Stories

2,894 first-hand accounts of flood events in Missouri, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Gentry, MO · Jul 30, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flash Flood

Lafayette, MO · Jul 30, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flash Flood

Lafayette, MO · Jul 30, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flash Flood

Johnson, MO · Jul 30, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flash Flood

Henry, MO · Jul 31, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flash Flood

Henry, MO · Jul 31, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flood

Cass, MO · Jul 29, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flood

Johnson, MO · Jul 29, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flood

Cass, MO · Jul 30, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flood

Johnson, MO · Jul 30, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flood

Lafayette, MO · Jul 31, 2020

Throughout the final few days of the month a mid level trough dug into the central part of the CONUS, and produced several rounds of moderate to heavy rain.

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Flash Flood$50K damage

Clark, MO · Jul 8, 2003

Storms that developed in the afternoon hours continued into the evening across far Northeast Missouri and a part of West Central Illinois and produced heavy rain.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Laclede, MO · Apr 25, 2011

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall across the Ozarks over the course of a week. A persistent trough over the central plains brought multiple upper level storm systems over the region which produced intense thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall.

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Flash Flood

Wright, MO · Jul 8, 2024

A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.

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Flash Flood

Greene, MO · Jul 8, 2024

A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.

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Flood

Jasper, MO · Jul 8, 2024

A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.

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Flood

Wright, MO · Jul 8, 2024

A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.

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Flash Flood

Dent, MO · Aug 10, 2020

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening of the 10th as an upper level disturbance and outflow boundary from an intense derecho over Iowa interacted with a stalled front. The strongest storms produced hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter.

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Flash Flood

Dent, MO · Aug 10, 2020

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening of the 10th as an upper level disturbance and outflow boundary from an intense derecho over Iowa interacted with a stalled front. The strongest storms produced hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Pemiscot, MO · Mar 8, 2012

A slow moving cold front pushed across the Missouri Bootheel during the afternoon of March 8, 2012. Showers and a few thunderstorms developed along and behind the front dumping a couple inches of rain across the area.

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Flood

Cape Girardeau, MO · Apr 1, 2020

The Mississippi River remained above flood stage through the month of April in the Cape Girardeau area. The Mississippi River first rose above flood stage at Cape Girardeau in mid March, and it remained above flood stage throughout April.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Pulaski, MO · Jun 15, 2009

Numerous thunderstorms developed over southwest Missouri during a 24 hour time period from 15 June to 16 June, 2009. This episode of hazardous weather was primarily a flash flood concern during the early morning of 15 June.

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Flash Flood

Webster, MO · Jan 25, 2021

Widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms trained over the region as moisture overran a warm front along the Arkansas border. Accumulations over two inches occurred over central and southwest Missouri, with isolated accumulations of three inches in Douglas County.

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Flash Flood

Greene, MO · Jan 25, 2021

Widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms trained over the region as moisture overran a warm front along the Arkansas border. Accumulations over two inches occurred over central and southwest Missouri, with isolated accumulations of three inches in Douglas County.

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