1,435 first-hand accounts of flood events in Wisconsin, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 →A devastating, record flash flood hit the area from Sheboygan Falls to the city of Sheboygan during the early morning hours, with Sheboygan having the worst of the flooding.
Read the full account →For the second straight day, severe storms moved across western Wisconsin on August 28th. These storms produced damaging winds, large hail and another round of heavy rain. This additional heavy rain aggravated ongoing flooding and caused some new flooding to occur.
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 slow moving low pressure area brought a 18-24 hour period of moderate to sometimes heavy rainfall. 3 to 6 inches of rain fell over far eastern WI, which resulted in river, creek, and lowland flooding. Numerous roads were flooded and closed.
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 →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 →During the afternoon and evening hours on July 2nd, rounds of showers and storms moved across portions of Grant County with one round of storms producing around 1.5 in an hour across northwestern portions of Grant County.
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 →For the second day in a row, severe thunderstorms moved across portions of western Wisconsin on May 16th. These storms primarily produced large hail from Taylor County south to Buffalo, Trempealeau and Jackson Counties.
Read the full account →Several rounds of storms moved across western Wisconsin during the afternoon of August 7th. One of these storms produced an EF3 tornado that started in Boscobel (Grant County) and traveled east/southeast before dissipating south of Blue River (Grant County).
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across western Wisconsin during the evening of September 3rd. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 5 inches produced some flash flooding across portions of Monroe, Vernon, Crawford and Richland Counties.
Read the full account →A low pressure system that moved from the Plains, across Illinois, to the Ohio Valley brought two periods of heavy precipitation and strong northeast winds to the area.
Read the full account →An unusually slow moving low pressure system with abundant moisture produced 5-9 inches of rain in a 24 hour period from early morning on September 11th to early morning on September 12th.
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 slow moving area of thunderstorms ahead of a cold front led to rainfall amounts of 2 to 5 inches in a short amount of time across parts of Price and Sawyer Counties. Numerous roads and county highways had water over them or were washed out.
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 →Heavy rains from Tropical Depression Cristobal fell across western Wisconsin on June 9th. This heavy rain resulted in some flash flooding across portions of Buffalo, Trempealeau and Taylor Counties.
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 →There were many factors that led to a severe Spring flood melt along the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers and several of their tributaries during the last two weeks of March. The first factor was above average snowpack for mid March.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed north of a warm front then tracked east during the late afternoon hours and into the evening. There was an isolated report of wind damage and several rounds of thunderstorms produced flash flooding during the overnight hours across portions of central…
Read the full account →One person was killed near Victory (Vernon County) when a house was swept down a hillside by a mudslide during the early morning hours of the 22nd.
Read the full account →The evening of Sunday, July 5th, a line of thunderstorms developed along a frontal boundary from west central to northeast Minnesota. By 2 to 3 am CST, numerous thunderstorms began to develop in east central Minnesota, ahead of the main line.
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