1,435 first-hand accounts of flood events in Wisconsin, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An Ice Jam and high river stages produced flooding in the city of Oconto, called the worst flooding in decades. Water surrounded many homes and some businesses and the city of Oconto declared a flood emergency.
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 →A nearly stationary band of thunderstorms developed across southwest Wisconsin during the evening of June 21st. These storms remained in place until another line of storms pushed in from the west during the early morning hours of the 22nd.
Read the full account →During the evening of September 6th, thunderstorms developed north of a nearly stationary front across the west central portions of Wisconsin. The first round of thunderstorms produced some locally heavy rains and damaging winds.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal moved through Wisconsin on June 9th into June 10th and spread heavy rainfall across parts of the state. Most of the Northland saw minimal effects from the system, but heavy rainfall was observed across Price County the night of the 9th.
Read the full account →On the evening of September 20th, a warm front was stretched west to east across southern Minnesota, and southern Wisconsin. The weather pattern, and associated boundaries were nearly stationary through early Thursday morning, September 22nd.
Read the full account →After a round of severe thunderstorms moved across western Wisconsin, a second round of thunderstorms developed over much of the same area during the late evening of July 19th into the early morning of the 20th.
Read the full account →Two lines of severe thunderstorms tracked across southern Wisconsin from early afternoon through the early evening hours. Numerous supercell thunderstorms developed, producing a number of wall and funnel clouds as well as a few tornadoes.
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 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 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 →After a round of severe thunderstorms moved across western Wisconsin, a second round of thunderstorms developed over much of the same area during the late evening of July 19th into the early morning of the 20th.
Read the full account →During the period from about March 10th through the 15th, daytime temperatures warmed well into the 40s with some locations reaching the 50s. These warm temperatures caused a rapid melt of the existing snowpack that averaged between 12 and 18 inches.
Read the full account →Several locations across northeast Wisconsin had snow depths around a foot or more above normal for late February and early March. Temperatures across central and northern Wisconsin warmed above freezing during the daytime hours starting around March 8th.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across southern WI as a warm front slowly moved north through the region. Flash flooding occurred in Washington, Ozaukee, and northern Milwaukee Counties which was followed by prolonged river flooding.
Read the full account →For the second time in less than a week, storms producing locally heavy rains moved across Crawford County in southwest Wisconsin. The runoff from the rain caused standing high water, mud and rock slides that closed a portion of State Highway 35 west of Eastman.
Read the full account →During the evening of September 6th, thunderstorms developed north of a nearly stationary front across the west central portions of Wisconsin. The first round of thunderstorms produced some locally heavy rains and damaging winds.
Read the full account →Repeated rounds of thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across western Wisconsin on August 11th. This heavy rain produced flash flooding in parts of Buffalo and Trempealeau Counties. In Buffalo County, Mondovi, Gilmanton and Cream were hit hard by the flash flooding.
Read the full account →Several lines of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across southern Wisconsin throughout the day on October 1st into the early morning hours of October 2nd. The heavy rain and thunderstorms were associated with the passage of a slow moving cold front.
Read the full account →The second winter storm in a week struck during the Thanksgiving weekend, impacting Wisconsin from late Saturday evening November 30th through Sunday December 1st.
Read the full account →During the overnight hours on July 3rd, a cluster of slow moving and strong storms pushed through west-central Wisconsin. Strong to severe wind gusts resulted in some sporadic instances of tree damage in Jackson County.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms moved east along a stalled out frontal boundary through central and east-central Wisconsin during the morning and early afternoon hours. 1 to 3 inches of rain fell during the morning and afternoon hours.
Read the full account →After a round of severe thunderstorms moved across western Wisconsin, a second round of thunderstorms developed over much of the same area during the late evening of July 19th into the early morning of the 20th.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms developed across northeast Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours. The strongest storms produced hail up to ping pong size, damaging wind gusts, along with heavy rain and flash flooding.
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