Flood — St. Clair, Illinois

2019-06-02 to 2019-06-12 · near Venice, St. Clair, Illinois

Event narrative

The Mississippi River at Alton, IL remained at it's highest levels between the evening of June 2nd and the evening of June 12th. There was at least $8.1 million in damage to the infrastructure along the Mississippi River due to the river flooding in St. Clair County.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 861557. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.