The stage was set in 1992 with a wet fall which resulted in above normal soil moisture and reservoir levels in the missouri and upper mississippi river basins.
Mississippi river floor 1993 newspape.
This volume contains a summary of the flooding in the upper mississippi river basin during the spring and summer of 1993 and 36 articles describing severe widespread or unusual flooding in the united states from january 1 1992 to the end of the 1993 water year september 30 1993.
1998 summary of floods in the united states january 1992 through september 1993.
The southern file photo flood of 93.
Flood waters had started to recede but remained well above normal.
The 1993 image was captured slightly after the peak water levels in this part of the mississippi river.
On june 27 1993 the mississippi river topped the flood stage in st.
The great flood of 93 had officially arrived.
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.
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.
All told the river stayed above flood stage at st.
Water from the mississippi river floods through a breach in the fayville levee in alexander county on july 15 1993.
Louis for 147 days.