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South Dakota Flood Stories

999 first-hand accounts of flood events in South Dakota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

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Lincoln, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Lincoln, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Lincoln, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Union, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Union, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Union, SD · Sep 21, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Union, SD · Sep 23, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Minnehaha, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Minnehaha, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Minnehaha, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Minnehaha, SD · Sep 20, 2018

A nearly stationary west to east frontal boundary was located across Nebraska and Iowa for several days. With an extremely moist atmosphere featuring near record precipitable water in place, several weak disturbances resulted in prolific rainfall from 3 to as much as 10 inches.

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Turner, SD · Sep 20, 2018

Precipitable water was near record levels across the immediate region for this time, with a strong low-level jet interacting with a nearly stationary west to east boundary as several weak disturbances progressed northeast across the area.

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Lincoln, SD · Sep 20, 2018

Precipitable water was near record levels across the immediate region for this time, with a strong low-level jet interacting with a nearly stationary west to east boundary as several weak disturbances progressed northeast across the area.

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Turner, SD · Sep 22, 2018

Precipitable water was near record levels across the immediate region for this time, with a strong low-level jet interacting with a nearly stationary west to east boundary as several weak disturbances progressed northeast across the area.

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Clay, SD · Sep 22, 2018

Precipitable water was near record levels across the immediate region for this time, with a strong low-level jet interacting with a nearly stationary west to east boundary as several weak disturbances progressed northeast across the area.

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Beadle, SD · Mar 5, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack at the start of the month near and north of Interstate 90, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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Yankton, SD · Mar 8, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack at the start of the month near and north of Interstate 90, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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Hand, SD · Jul 5, 2020

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms developed across central and north central South Dakota along a weak surface low pressure trough. One round was in the early morning hours while the other round was in the late afternoon and evening.

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Codington, SD · May 1, 2019

Earlier snowmelt and heavy rain flooding continued into early May on the Big Sioux River near Watertown. The river went below flood stage on May 5th and with heavy rainfall in late May, went above flood stage again for a short period of time from May 24th to May 25th.

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Aurora, SD · Mar 2, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack near and north of Interstate 90 at the start of the month, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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Hutchinson, SD · Mar 3, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack near and north of Interstate 90 at the start of the month, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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Bon Homme, SD · Mar 3, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack near and north of Interstate 90 at the start of the month, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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Yankton, SD · Mar 3, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack near and north of Interstate 90 at the start of the month, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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Davison, SD · Mar 2, 2020

With one to four inches of liquid residing in the snowpack near and north of Interstate 90 at the start of the month, a more or less ideal melting of the winter snowpack in early March combined with high base flows and wet antecedent conditions to produce minor to major flooding…

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