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River Falls, but Flood Threats Remain
The Mississippi River began its slow decline, but it was still significantly above flood stage, spurred by heavy rain last week.
Updated: 2:50 PM GMT on April 23, 2013
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Figure 1. Thursday, April 18, 2013: Aerial photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the dam in Marseilles, Ill., after seven barges broke free from a tow and came to rest against the dam. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class John Schleicher.)
Record flooding ends in Illinois and Michigan
The National Weather Service recognizes four types of flooding: minor, moderate, major, and record. Major flooding is capable of causing significant damage, and moderate and minor flooding generally only cause isolated damage. Record flooding, of course, can cause record damage, and we had at least nineteen river gauges report record flooding during the April 2013 flood event. The record flooding has ended, and no more record flooding is expected this week. The record floods, as compiled by Dr. Greg Forbes of TWC:
Illinois River: at Peoria, IL; Henry IL; Morris IL; Ottawa IL; and LaSalle IL
Grand River at Comstock Park, MI
Rock River at Moline IL and Byron, IL (short record at the latter)
LaMoine River at Ripley, IL and Colmar, IL
Fox River at McHenry Lock and Dam, IL and Algonquin Tailwater, IL
Des Plaines River at Des Plaines and Riverside IL
Vermilion River at Leonore, IL
East Branch DuPage River at Bolingbrook, IL
Spoon River at Seville, IL
English River at Kalona, IA
North Branch Chicago River in Chicago, IL
Figure 2. Holy carp! A smallmouth bass checks out the interior of an office building in Riverfront Plaza, which was flooded by the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, MI, on Saturday, April 21, 2013. The Grand Rapids Public Museum is in the background. The picture was taken by Lynn Clay, director of network office supervision at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Grand Rapids. According to an interview with MLive.com, she was simply trying to take a photo of the flood when the fish swam into the frame. She didn’t even realize it until she saw the image later. The 110-year-old building, despite some leaking and soggy bottom level carpeting, survived the flooding in great shape, according to facilities staff.
Figure 3. Office building in Grand Rapids, Michigan where the fish photo was taken, as seen on Saturday, April 21, 2013. Image credit: GRNow.com. According to this thread on Facebook, the office building was built with aquarium glass.
More major Midwest spring flooding expected next week
A second round of major Midwest flooding is expected the last week of April and into early May, when the heavy snowpack in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin is expected to melt significantly, unleashing the equivalent of 4 - 8 inches of rainfall into the watersheds of the Red River of the North, Mississippi River, and Missouri River. Of particular concern is the flooding expected on the Red River of the North near Fargo, North Dakota, where flood heights will likely be among the top five in recorded history. Fortunately, the latest 2-week forecast from the GFS model shows only one significant rain-making storm affecting the region April 25 - May 7--a cold front that may produce about 0.5" of precipitation around April 30.
Wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt summarized some of the rainfall and flooding records from the epic storm April 15 - 20 storm in his Sunday post."
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