999 first-hand accounts of flood events in South Dakota, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Several days of heavy rain, along with major to record flooding the previous week, led to more flooding across portions of the western South Dakota plains and foothills of the Black Hills.
Read the full account →A severe thunderstorm developed in the Custer area and remained nearly stationary for close to an hour and a half. The storm produced a lot of hail around quarter size, which accumulated six inches deep in some areas.
Read the full account →High water levels from April continued throughout May and into June on Lake Poinsett. Above normal rainfall along with periods of strong winds in May kept lake levels high and created large waves which brought more damage to homes and flooded roads along the lake.
Read the full account →Late March snowmelt flooding on the Elm River near Frederick continued into early April. The river rose above the flood stage of 13 feet to 15.7 feet on March 31st and then slowly fell to below flood stage on April 12th.
Read the full account →A cold front during the late afternoon and early evening hours slashed into an unstable airmass with 2000-3000 J/kg MLCAPE and 30-35 knots of 0-6 km shear.
Read the full account →A cold front during the late afternoon and early evening hours slashed into an unstable airmass with 2000-3000 J/kg MLCAPE and 30-35 knots of 0-6 km shear.
Read the full account →A cold front during the late afternoon and early evening hours slashed into an unstable airmass with 2000-3000 J/kg MLCAPE and 30-35 knots of 0-6 km shear.
Read the full account →The months of flooding continued to add up on the James River from Columbia to Stratford. The James River surpassed a year of flooding in April and continued to flood throughout May and into June.
Read the full account →The months of flooding continued to add up on the James River from Columbia to Stratford. The James River surpassed a year of flooding in April and continued to flood throughout May and into June.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Starting June 20, the area was impacted adversely by several very slow moving mid-level waves which drifted across the northern and central Plains and interacted with a nearly stationary region of baroclinicity during the following week.
Read the full account →Very heavy rainfall caused the Oak Creek near Wakpala to rise quickly above and below flood stage from July 9th to the 10th. The creek rose to above the flood stage of 10 feet in the late evening hours of the 9th to 13.51 feet in the morning hours of the 10th.
Read the full account →A cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms developed into a broken line of storms, producing hail and a few wind gusts near 60 mph before weakening.
Read the full account →The record continuous flooding on the James River which began in early April 2019 continued throughout the month of June across Brown county from Columbia to Stratford.
Read the full account →The record continuous flooding on the James River which began in early April 2019 continued throughout the month of June across Brown county from Columbia to Stratford.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm became severe in the Badlands area and tracked slowly north-northeast across parts of Jackson and Haakon Counties, eventually becoming a line of storms.
Read the full account →Snow melt water brought flooding on the Elm River near Frederick and on the Foot Creek near Aberdeen at the very end of March. Foot creek rose to nearly a half foot above the flood stage of 9 foot while the Elm River rose to 2.7 feet above the flood stage of 13 feet.
Read the full account →The flooding on the James River from Columbia to Stratford reached a year and four months at the end of July of being continuously above flood stage.
Read the full account →The flooding on the James River from Columbia to Stratford reached a year and four months at the end of July of being continuously above flood stage.
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