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To protect Cairo, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, which lowered the river by flooding more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Missouri. Later that spring, heavy rains and rapid snowmelt upstream led to flooding along the Missouri River, which damaged property and closed the river to navigation. [1]
A rural is surrounded by flood waters Monday, July 12, 1993, Colfax, Iowa, Central Iowa was hit by heavy flooding after weeks of heavy rain in the upper Midwest. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) 1993 ...
The flooding closed a number of roads in Missouri around the Meramec River, and threatened to force the closure of Interstate 44 at Valley Park. [10] Unlike the Great Flood of 1993 , which affected this same region, the majority of homes and businesses in Valley Park were protected from the flooding by a new levee built in 2005. [ 10 ]
The most extreme flooding occurred along the tributaries of the Missouri River, the largest tributary (by area) of the Mississippi River. The 12-month period ending in April 2019 was the wettest to date during the 1895-2019 period of record, with an average of 36.27 inches (921 mm) of precipitation over the conterminous United States.
Missouri River flooding continues to cause more damage over the last decade. There have been major flooding events June - August 2011, December 2015 thru January 2016, and April - May 2017. [ 45 ] In March 2019 the Missouri River flooded almost every levee devastating countless farms and homes in Holt County, Missouri .
The June 23, 2016 flooding in West Virginia was one of the deadliest floods in state history, and deadliest flash flood in U.S. history since the 2010 Tennessee Floods. The flooding was caused by 8 to 10 inches of rainfall over a 12-hour period. 23 people perished from the floods, and hardest hit counties included Greenbrier, Kanawha, Jackson ...
The Midwestern United States experienced major floods in the spring of 2019, primarily along the Missouri River and its tributaries in Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota, Iowa, and Kansas. The Mississippi River also saw flooding, although starting later and ending earlier. The 2019 January-to-May period was the wettest on record for the U.S ...
The heaviest amounts of 4-8 inches of rain are most likely from central Missouri to central and southern West Virginia, where an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 24 inches of rain has the greatest ...