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This event previously held the state record for a 24-hour rainfall at an official climate station in Illinois with 10.58 inches (26.9 cm) recorded at Aurora, Illinois. This record was exceeded just a few years later by a heavy rain event east of St. Louis, only to be superseded by another heavy rainfall event in and near Aurora in 1996. [1]
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; Ohio River flood of 1937; 1954 floods of Northeastern Illinois; Great Flood of 1993; 2007 Midwest flooding; June 2008 Midwest floods; 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2013 Midwestern U.S. floods; July–August 2022 United States floods; July 2023 Chicago Area Flood; July 2023 Western Kentucky floods
1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425
The National Weather Service has been keeping Belleville rainfall records since 1944. The one-year maximum is 56.62 inches in 1957. The one-year maximum is 56.62 inches in 1957. The one-month ...
It was one of the worst floods in history. The Ohio River flood of 1937 occurred in late January and February 1937, causing damage along the Ohio River and several smaller tributaries from Pittsburgh, Illinois, to Cairo, Illinois. This flood left close to one million people homeless, 385 dead, and $50,000,000 worth of damage.
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, the most notable being the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2 ) annually. [ 1 ]
While the worst of the flooding occurred in the summer of 1993, impacts across the region lasted for years. ... near Columbia, Illinois, gives way to rushing waters from the Mississippi River on ...
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