1,435 first-hand accounts of flood events in Wisconsin, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rains, in some cases, setting new daily records across south-central and southeast Wisconsin, resulted in most rivers reaching or exceeding flood stage. Thunderstorms and cloud-to-ground lightning were reported across the southeastern counties.
Read the full account →Heavy rains, in some cases, setting new daily records across south-central and southeast Wisconsin, resulted in most rivers reaching or exceeding flood stage. Thunderstorms and cloud-to-ground lightning were reported across the southeastern counties.
Read the full account →Heavy rains, in some cases, setting new daily records across south-central and southeast Wisconsin, resulted in most rivers reaching or exceeding flood stage. Thunderstorms and cloud-to-ground lightning were reported across the southeastern counties.
Read the full account →Severe storms moved across western Wisconsin during the evening of May 19th and produced a brief tornado, some damaging winds, and large hail.
Read the full account →A cluster/line of thunderstorms moved across southern Wisconsin the evening of March 5th. Within this line of storms, some briefly intense downburst winds occurred across portions of south central to east central Wisconsin.
Read the full account →Two rounds of storms moved across western Wisconsin on July 23rd. The first occurred in the afternoon and produced a tornado and wind damage. A brief EF0 tornado occurred just east of La Crosse (La Crosse County) that damaged trees along its path.
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 →A quick 1 inch rainfall in 15 minutes ending at 0430CST in the city of Brookfield, on top of a saturated ground, and previous rainfalls of 1 to 2 inches the day before, resulted in flash flooding. Water quickly covered some roads to a depth of 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →During the afternoon and evening of June 1st, thunderstorms with very heavy rain rolled across western Wisconsin. Some of these storms dumped over 3 inches of rain which caused streams in the vicinity of Westby (Vernon County) to rapidly come out of their banks spilling water…
Read the full account →Clusters of thunderstorms developed along an occluded front lifting through southern Wisconsin during the afternoon and early evening hours of October 5th. Very heavy rain and flash flooding occurred over southeast Wisconsin.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms moved across the region during the morning of the 23rd ahead of a cold front. While the storms were not severe as they reached northwestern Wisconsin, they were producing heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A line of thunderstorms developed north of a warm front that was slowly moving from south to north across Wisconsin. The line of storms moved east across northern Wisconsin during the morning, producing penny to nickel size hail in Vilas County and Oneida County.
Read the full account →Long duration showers and some thunderstorms dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain across parts of southcentral and southeast Wisconsin on top of a saturated ground.
Read the full account →Long duration showers and some thunderstorms dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain across parts of southcentral and southeast Wisconsin on top of a saturated ground.
Read the full account →Heavy rains of 2 to 3 inches in the 24 hour period ending at 0500CST on the 17th resulted in closure or Highway 59 on the west side of the city of Waukesha. Water covered the road to a depth of 1 to 2 feet. Elsewhere...
Read the full account →Thunderstorms produced flooding rains over portions of South Central Wisconsin and far southern Southeast Wisconsin. The storms produced damaging wind gusts over Lafayette and Dane counties.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours on July 11th, severe storms moved through Grant County bringing a few instances of severe wind gusts between 60 and 70 mph resulting in sporadic wind damage.
Read the full account →During the afternoon hours on July 11th, severe storms moved through Grant County bringing a few instances of severe wind gusts between 60 and 70 mph resulting in sporadic wind damage.
Read the full account →Rainfall totals of 3 to 4 inches caused flash flooding across parts of southwest Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening of June 12 from repeat thunderstorms. Hardest hit communities were in Grant County and included Potosi, Tennyson and British Hollow.
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell overnight causing the Wood River and Memory Lake to overflow their banks. A few homes were evacuated near the Wood River. Around $50,000 damage was done to roadways from erosion along the Wood River. Schools in Webster and Grantsburg were closed for the day.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfalls of 4 to 5 inches in the early morning hours resulted in flash flooding of roads and fields east of Cooksville.Road shoulders were washed out, and there was serious soil erosion to farm fields.
Read the full account →The Kickapoo River remained near or above flood stage for several days after flooding rains hit southwest Wisconsin. At Steuben, the river crested nearly 2 feet above flood stage at 13.99 feet.
Read the full account →Several individual rounds of thunderstorms impacted western Wisconsin from Friday, August 16th through Sunday, August 18th. Heavy rain amounts on the order of 5-7 inches fell over the course of 72 hours, most of which fell from late Saturday into early Sunday, leading to at…
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.
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