1,435 first-hand accounts of flood events in Wisconsin, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
The remnants of tropical storm Cristobal moved north-northeast across eastern Iowa, and into southwest and central Wisconsin during the evening of Tuesday, June 9th.
Read the full account →A strong, slow-moving low pressure system drifted southeast across the upper Midwest over a 3 day period from May 17 through May 19. This system interacted with copious moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall…
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system tracking through the southern Great Lakes caused gusty northeast winds across east-central and northeast Wisconsin, which caused some isolated damage and widespread lakeshore flooding in Brown and Oconto counties.
Read the full account →A strong, slow-moving low pressure system drifted southeast across the upper Midwest over a 3 day period from May 17 through May 19. This system interacted with copious moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall…
Read the full account →A strong, slow-moving low pressure system drifted southeast across the upper Midwest over a 3 day period from May 17 through May 19. This system interacted with copious moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall…
Read the full account →A strong, slow-moving low pressure system drifted southeast across the upper Midwest over a 3 day period from May 17 through May 19. This system interacted with copious moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall…
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system tracked from the central Plains through the western Great Lakes region, bringing 8 to 12 inches to portions of central and northeast Wisconsin.
Read the full account →Strong low pressure passing by to the southeast resulted in an extended period of strong north to northeast winds along the Lake Michigan shoreline of southeast and east central Wisconsin.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system tracking through the southern Great Lakes caused gusty northeast winds across east-central and northeast Wisconsin, which caused some isolated damage and widespread lakeshore flooding in Brown and Oconto counties.
Read the full account →A complicated weather scenario developed during the late afternoon and early evening of July 9th. A cold front pushing east into southwestern Wisconsin produced slow moving scattered thunderstorms across south-central Wisconsin as a lake breeze pushed west into the counties of…
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorm winds were responsible for scattered tree and power line damage. Hardest hit was Walworth county were a barn was blown off it's foundation near Sharon (Walworth Co) and another out-building damaged.
Read the full account →A cold front tracked west to east across western and central Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours of July 14th. Severe thunderstorms developed along the cold front and produced severe wind gusts, funnel clouds, large hail and one tornado.
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 →Well above average rainfall throughout June in conjunction with late-month heavy rainfall contributed to additional rises into flood stage along the Mississippi River.
Read the full account →During the evening hours on July 7th a slow moving thunderstorm moved over portions of northwestern Clark County. These storms produced heavy rainfall totals which resulted in some flooding along County Road O near Greenwood.
Read the full account →A small complex of thunderstorms developed over eastern Minnesota early in the morning of the 16th. These storms then moved into central Wisconsin during the late morning dropping some locally heavy rain.
Read the full account →Three to five inches of rain fell over and just north of Appleton on July 14th. Much of the rain fell in the Apple Creek basin in Outagamie County. Apple Creek Campground is just downstream and across the county line in Brown County next to a bend in the creek.
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 →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 →Thunderstorms produced rainfall amounts of nearly 2.5 inches in two hours, which caused widespread street flooding in La Crosse and Onalaska (La Crosse County). In fact, law enforcement officials reported 8 inches of water over some roads in downtown La Crosse.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms developed north of a warm front and trained across portions of northeast Iowa into Southwest Wisconsin during the evening of July 27th into the early morning hours of the 28th.
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 series of thunderstorms developed into clusters and short lines that moved east-southeast through southern Wisconsin. Due to a moist atmosphere, heavy rains were reported overnight in the range of 1 inch to slightly over 4 inches.
Read the full account →Heavy rains of 3 inches in short period of time resulted in flash flooding in and around Martintown. Home basements and businesses were flooded. A road experienced a shoulder washout.
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