1,435 first-hand accounts of flood events in Wisconsin, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Repeated rounds of showers and some thunderstorms during the second half of April brought rain totals for the entire month to between 5 and 8 inches, or between 150 percent and 200 percent of normal across southern Wisconsin.
Read the full account →Repeated rounds of showers and some thunderstorms during the second half of April brought rain totals for the entire month to between 5 and 8 inches, or between 150 percent and 200 percent of normal across southern Wisconsin.
Read the full account →Repeated rounds of showers and some thunderstorms during the second half of April brought rain totals for the entire month to between 5 and 8 inches, or between 150 percent and 200 percent of normal across southern Wisconsin.
Read the full account →The second week of April saw rainfall totals between 2 inches and 5 inches across southern Wisconsin. These totals represented 300 percent to 600 percent of the amount normally seen from April 7th through the 14th.
Read the full account →Deep layer shear with a short wave trough interacted with instability ahead of a surface trough trailing from a surface low in central Wisconsin. The instability and shear produced supercell thunderstorms in southern Wisconsin along and ahead of the surface trough.
Read the full account →Flooding continued during the day as a result of excessively heavy rainfall Friday night into Saturday morning. Numerous roads remained closed due to washouts, while streams and creeks were overflowing.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall and flash flooding across portions of western Wisconsin late in the evening on August 7th through the early morning hours on August 8th.
Read the full account →2 to 4 inches of rain in two hours caused flash flooding. Law enforcement officials and emergency managers reported several roads were either washed out or covered with water as much as 3 to 4 feet deep.
Read the full account →Late afternoon thunderstorms rumbled across southern Wisconsin producing classic severe weather damage in many locations. There were numerous reports of wind damage to trees and power lines, large hail, and lightning.
Read the full account →One would be hard pressed to find another day like June 1, 2000 in terms of depth and range of severe, convective weather events across south-central and southeast Wisconsin.
Read the full account →The second round of adverse weather on the 17th started off as a large hail and damaging wind event in Sauk County, but quickly changed to a heavy rain and flash flooding event as individual cells became more numerous and clusters moved east/southeast.
Read the full account →Short lines or clusters of thunderstorms, some of them severe with large hail, moved through south-central and southeast Wisconsin. Due to intense rainfalls and training of storms, heavy rains occurred in some locations.
Read the full account →Short lines or clusters of thunderstorms, some of them severe with large hail, moved through south-central and southeast Wisconsin. Due to intense rainfalls and training of storms, heavy rains occurred in some locations.
Read the full account →Short lines or clusters of thunderstorms, some of them severe with large hail, moved through south-central and southeast Wisconsin. Due to intense rainfalls and training of storms, heavy rains occurred in some locations.
Read the full account →A series of thunderstorm cells moved south through southern Wisconsin during the mid-morning hours on July 26th. Some of these cells trained over the same area, resulting in flash flooding.
Read the full account →A series of clusters of strong to severe storms ahead of a cold front moved east/northeast across south-central and sourtheast Wisconsin. Copious amounts of moisture were available that allowed repeated heavy rains.
Read the full account →A warm front set up across far southern Wisconsin on the afternoon of June 18th as an upper level disturbance moved eastward into the Upper Midwest.
Read the full account →The evening of August 13th, a slow moving mesoscale convective complex developed, with a band of intense thunderstorms across Pierce, Pepin, and Eau Claire counties in west central Wisconsin.
Read the full account →One would be hard pressed to find another day like June 1, 2000 in terms of depth and range of severe, convective weather events across south-central and southeast Wisconsin.
Read the full account →On June 18th small clusters of storms moved northeast through southeastern Wisconsin ahead of a cold front. Wet microbursts and macrobursts generated powerful wind gusts of 65 to 87 knots (75 to 100 mph) that toppled large trees, damaged power-lines and power-poles, and pushed…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms moving along a warm front encountered very unstable air across central Wisconsin where they produced damaging winds, hail and flash flooding.
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 →The Milwaukee River at Cedarburg rose above its flood stage of 10 feet on May 23rd at 0537 CST. The river crested at 13.19 feet on May 23rd at 2145 CST, 2.49 feet above flood stage. At this crested level, moderate flooding occurred.
Read the full account →A deeper than average snow pack from northern Minnesota into northern Wisconsin underwent a rapid melt through much of April from unseasonably warm temperatures combined with multiple rain events.
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