Flash Flood — Bond, Illinois

2022-07-26 · near Old Ripley, Bond, Illinois

Event narrative

Up to 6 inches of rain fell in 6 to 10 hour period causing flash flooding across the northern portions of Bond County. Several roads in this area were flooded. About a mile south of Donnellson, one vehicle was washed off the roadway. The driver was rescued and sustained no injuries.

Wider weather episode

During the early morning of Tuesday, July 26th, 2022, a complex of training thunderstorms set up roughly along the I-70 corridor in Missouri and I-64 corridor in Illinois. Several rounds of thunderstorms with rainfall rates exceeding 2in/hr affected this area, including the St. Louis metropolitan area, through the early hours of July 26th and into the morning commute. Upwards of 11 of rain fell over the course of roughly 8 hours in an axis from Hawk Point, MO to St. Peters, MO according to radar-estimated rainfall products and several CoCoRaHS/spotter reports. A longer axis of over 8 of rain fell from northern Montgomery County in Missouri to St. Clair County in Illinois, causing multiple swift water rescues and scores of flooded interstates and homes across the St. Louis metropolitan area. St. Louis-Lambert International Airport also observed a new all-time record for daily precipitation: 8.64 of rain fell since midnight Central Standard Time (Daylight Savings Time is not used for climatological record-keeping). This value broke the previous record of 6.85, which occurred on August 20th, 1915 due to the remnants of the Galveston 1915 Hurricane. The storm-total rainfall was 9.07, but spans two days. Two fatalities were reported: one in St. Louis City, where a man drowned in his car near Skinker Blvd, and another in Hazelwood where a man drowned attempting to flee his flooded truck.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1050031. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.