Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Great Flood of 1993 (or Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993) was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993. The flood is among the most costly and devastating to ever occur in the United States, with 50 dead and US$12 ...
The Mississippi River at St. Louis crested just shy of 50 feet on Aug. 1, 1993, nearly 20 feet above the flood stage threshold. This was one of 92 water gauges to record an all-time record crest ...
The 1945 flood of the Ohio River was the second-worst in Louisville, Kentucky, history after the one in 1937 and caused the razing of the entire waterfront district of the neighborhood of Portland. Afterwards, flood walls were erected around the city to 3 feet (0.91 m) above the highest level of the '37 flood.
The eruption, while not directly responsible, may have played a part in the formation of the 1993 Storm of the Century. [7] During March 11 and 12, 1993, temperatures over much of the eastern United States began to drop as an arctic high pressure system built over the Midwestern United States and the Great Plains.
The “Great Flood” of St. Louis in 1993 is considered “the most costly and devastating flood to ravage the U.S. in modern history,” according to the NWS. The flood occurred from May to ...
Over the course of a three-month period in the summer of 1993, a slow-moving and historic flooding disaster unfolded across the midwestern United States, leaving economic ramifications that would ...
1993 Great Flood of 1993: Flood Midwest: $15,000,000,000 50 2003 Tornado outbreak sequence of May 2003: Tornado outbreak sequence Great Plains, Eastern United States: $4,100,000,000 Including nine non-tornadic deaths 50 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407: Accident – aircraft Clarence Center, New York: 50 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting: Terrorism ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When the Mississippi River reached record levels 26 years ago, the overflowing water covered 400,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) and caused dozens of deaths.