Flood in Callaway County, Missouri

The Missouri River at Jefferson City rose above 33 feet during the late evening hours of June 3rd, which is 3 feet above Major Flood stage and remained that high through the evening of June 8th. This was the period when the river was at it's highest levels for this event. The flooding affected Jefferson City Memorial Airport for a couple of months. The terminal building sustained more than 50 percent damage so will have to be torn down and rebuilt to FEMA floodplain standards. The airport tower was flooded as well. The ASOS unit had to be powered off beginning May 22nd until July 30th and had to be repaired once the flood waters went down.

After a very snowy winter across the upper Midwest and numerous rounds of heavy rain across the Missouri and Mississippi River basins through the spring and early summer months, the rivers rose to record levels. The flooding was not quite as high as 1993, but a number of sites had record river levels in the top 5.