1,435 first-hand accounts of flood events in Wisconsin, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Two complexes of thunderstorms moved across southwest Wisconsin during the late evening of June 9th into the early morning hours of the 10th. These storms produced locally heavy rains with the runoff resulting in some flash flooding across Grant County.
Read the full account →A warm front extended west to east across the Upper Mississippi River Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall and other severe weather.
Read the full account →A slow-moving surface boundary, nearly parallel with the mid-level flow affected southern Wisconsin during the period of June 7th through June 9th.
Read the full account →Severe weather in the form of a tornado, damaging straight-line downburst winds, large hail, and flash flooding hammered a small piece of south-central and much of southeast Wisconsin during the late afternoon and evening hours.
Read the full account →A warm front lifting northward into Iowa triggered round after round of thunderstorms leading to excessive rainfall across southwest Wisconsin during the evening and overnight hours of August 18-19. Total rainfall amounts of 10 to 15 inches were common.
Read the full account →Flash flooding and scattered severe thunderstorms struck parts of south-central and southeast Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours. Several clusters of showers and thunderstorms moved east/northeast at 35 to 40 mph across the area.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms in Minnesota moved into west central Wisconsin and produced some damaging winds, torrential rainfall and hail. ||Up to 2.5 inches of rain fell in a 30 minute period in portions of west central Wisconsin causing roads and bridges to be flooded.
Read the full account →Even though heavy rains didn't fall in the surrounding area, record river levels occurred on the Wisconsin River near Portage. A potent, early-fall, storm brought waves of heavy rain to western and central Wisconsin, well upstream from Portage, beginning late on Wednesday,…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms produced excessive rainfall across southwest Wisconsin during the night of May 31 into the morning hours ofJune 1. Amounts of 3 to 6 inches were common with localized amounts of over 7 inches.
Read the full account →A slow-moving surface boundary, nearly parallel with the mid-level flow affected southern Wisconsin during the period of June 7th through June 9th.
Read the full account →A warm front extended west to east across the Upper Mississippi River Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall and other severe weather.
Read the full account →Scattered to widespread heavy rains across south-central and southeast Wisconsin during the period of June 9-12, 2004 kept many rivers and streams at or above flood stage for a good part, or most of the month.
Read the full account →A warm front extended west to east across the Upper Mississippi River Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall and other severe weather.
Read the full account →A stationary front set up across central Wisconsin on the evening of September 22nd. As an unusually moist air mass flowed over this boundary, heavy rain developed and fell repeatedly across the area during the evening and overnight hours.
Read the full account →A warm front extended west to east across the Upper Mississippi River Valley on June 7, which provided the focus for thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall and other severe weather.
Read the full account →A warm front lifting northward into Iowa triggered round after round of thunderstorms leading to excessive rainfall across southwest Wisconsin during the evening and overnight hours of August 18-19. Total rainfall amounts of 10 to 15 inches were common.
Read the full account →A cluster of severe thunderstorms developed ahead of an advancing cold front over northeast Iowa during the evening of June 29th. As these storms moved across southwest Wisconsin they produced a tornado near Fennimore (Grant County) that produced considerable tree damage,…
Read the full account →Rounds of thunderstorms with torrential rainfall affected southern WI from late evening on July 11th through the morning of July 12th due to a strong surge of warm, moist, and unstable air over a stationary front.
Read the full account →A couple rounds of thunderstorms moved across southwest Wisconsin during the early morning hours of September 15th. These storms dropped 2 to 3 inches of rain on already saturated soils and the resulting runoff produced some flooding across Grant County.
Read the full account →A strong squall line with torrential rainfall moved east along and north of warm front over southern WI. A quick 2.5-4.5 inches of rain resulted in the flash flooding of creeks, small rivers, and urban and rural roadways. Some trees were downed by straight-line winds.
Read the full account →Mild temperatures and some rainfall led to snow melt and excessive runoff on a frozen ground. Numerous rivers flooded including flooding in atypical areas due to ice jams. Evacuations were needed in some communities.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms produced excessive rainfall across southwest Wisconsin during the night of May 31 into the morning hours ofJune 1. Amounts of 3 to 6 inches were common with localized amounts of over 7 inches.
Read the full account →An east to west stationary front across central Wisconsin was the focus for the development of thunderstorms. Heavy rain occurred across that part of the state during the night of June 21-22 as thunderstorms trained over the area for several hours.
Read the full account →Clusters of thunderstorms with heavy rains generated WSR-88D Doppler Radar rainfall estimates of 5 to 6 inches within 4 to 6 hours in Cambria (Columbia Co.), resulting in flash flooding.
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