Understanding_The_1993_MIdwest_Flooding_Disaster

Understanding The 1993 MIdwest Flooding Disaster Understand the 93 flooding of the Mississippi (Description, cause, damage, recovery of this disaster). a) The most devastating flood in U.S. history occurred in the summer of 1993. The Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, was above flood stage for 144 days between April 1 and September 30, 1993. Approximately 3 billion cubic meters of water overflowed from the river channel onto the floodplain downstream from St. Louis. All large midwestern streams flooded including the Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Des Moines and Wisconsin rivers. Seventeen thousand square miles of land were covered by floodwaters in a region covering all or parts of nine states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois). b) There were four principal reasons why flooding was so extensive. 1. The region received higher than normal precipitation during the first half of 1993. Much of the area received over 150% of normal rainfall and parts of North Dakota, Kansas, and Iowa received more than double their typical rainfall. 2. Individual storms frequently dumped large river, over, flood, 1993, rainfall, mississippi, iowa, flooding, streams, recovery, received, parts, normal, missouri, large, kansas, dakota, year, wisconsin, white, st, september, scientific, region, previous, precipitation, office, occurred, north, miles, louis, local, levees, less, including