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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.

Flood$10K damage

Bollinger, MO · Apr 3, 1999

Law enforcement officials reported flooding continued as a result of very heavy thunderstorm rains the previous afternoon and evening. Most of the flooding in Bollinger County was around Zalma and Marble Hill. Near Zalma, the Castor River overflowed across two bridges.

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Wayne, MO · Apr 3, 1999

Law enforcement officials reported flooding continued as a result of very heavy thunderstorm rains the previous afternoon and evening. Most of the flooding in Bollinger County was around Zalma and Marble Hill. Near Zalma, the Castor River overflowed across two bridges.

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Howell, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Howell, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Douglas, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Douglas, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Howell, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Douglas, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Shannon, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Ozark, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Ozark, MO · Jan 4, 2019

An upper level low pressure system brought rainfall to southern portions of the Ozarks, mainly along and south of Interstate 44, as it moved across the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Phelps, MO · Mar 18, 2008

Excessive rainfall developed over southern Missouri during the evening of 17 March. A line of training convection assumed a position roughly along a line from Anderson to Ozark to Licking.

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Butler, MO · Mar 6, 2022

Small clusters of intense storms moved northeastward during the late afternoon and early evening. These pre-frontal storms were associated with a strengthening low-level jet and some cooling aloft.

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Stoddard, MO · Mar 6, 2022

Small clusters of intense storms moved northeastward during the late afternoon and early evening. These pre-frontal storms were associated with a strengthening low-level jet and some cooling aloft.

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Vernon, MO · Apr 30, 2012

A stalled frontal boundary over the Ozarks and an upper trough over the region resulted in the development of several rounds of thunderstorms which produced very heavy rainfall.

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Flood$10K damage

Saline, MO · Apr 20, 1999

Clusters of thunderstorms developed along a slow-moving front and moved eastward across west-central Missouri on the evening of April 20. Many of the affected areas were hit by two waves of storms, which produced large hail and heavy rainfall.

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Lincoln, MO · Aug 8, 2020

A high precipitation and flash flooding event occurred over east central Missouri and southwest Illinois beginning during the evening of August 8th, and ending during the early afternoon of August 9th.

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St. Charles, MO · Aug 8, 2020

A high precipitation and flash flooding event occurred over east central Missouri and southwest Illinois beginning during the evening of August 8th, and ending during the early afternoon of August 9th.

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St. Louis, MO · Aug 8, 2020

A high precipitation and flash flooding event occurred over east central Missouri and southwest Illinois beginning during the evening of August 8th, and ending during the early afternoon of August 9th.

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Taney, MO · May 1, 2019

Strong storms produced heavy rainfall and flooding as a slow-moving cold front moved across southeastern Kansas and into Missouri from overnight April 30th and continued into May 1st.

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McDonald, MO · May 1, 2019

Strong storms produced heavy rainfall and flooding as a slow-moving cold front moved across southeastern Kansas and into Missouri from overnight April 30th and continued into May 1st.

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Dade, MO · May 1, 2019

Strong storms produced heavy rainfall and flooding as a slow-moving cold front moved across southeastern Kansas and into Missouri from overnight April 30th and continued into May 1st.

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Wayne, MO · Apr 26, 2019

A surface low pressure center tracked northeast along the lower Ohio River. The surface low was associated with a deep 500 mb trough, which moved east across the Mississippi Valley. Parts of southeast Missouri picked up one to three inches of rain.

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Perry, MO · Apr 25, 2019

A surface low pressure center tracked northeast along the lower Ohio River. The surface low was associated with a deep 500 mb trough, which moved east across the Mississippi Valley. Parts of southeast Missouri picked up one to three inches of rain.

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