Heavy rainfall and flooding on September 16, 2016

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Overview

Heavy rainfall fell across portions of southeastern South Dakota into southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa. Up to 6 inches of rain fell in 6 hours producing street flooding in Sioux Falls, Tyndall, and Yankton. This heavy rainfall closed roads in the region, and led to rapid rises in area streams, creeks and rivers.


Total Rainfall 7 am CDT 15 September to 7 am CDT 16 September, 2016	A photo of Sioux Falls taken around 430 pm CDT 15 September, 2016	Rainfall in the Sioux Falls metro area 7 am CDT 15 September - 7 am CDT 16 September, 2016

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Rainfall Reports and Historical Weather Info

Flooding

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Radar Picture at 9:41 AM CDT The first line of storms around Yankton and Sioux Falls. The second line of storms which brought the flash flooding was beginning to develop over Tyndall at this time.	Radar Picture at 9:41 AM CDT A close up of storms around Yankton South Dakota. This storm produced 1.77" of rain in Yankton in 45 minutes.	Radar Picture at 11:16 AM CDT A line of thunderstorms with heavy rain rain over Bon Homme County, South Dakota. 3 to 5 inches of rain fell in Bon Homme County with these storms.	Radar Picture at 1:41 PM CDT The second line of thunderstorms moved over Sioux Falls in the early afternoon. 1 to 2 inches of rain fell between 1 and 2 pm in Sioux Falls with over 3 inches of rain by 3 pm producing street flooding across the city.

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Images From Around the Region


Photo Near 85th and Grange in Sioux Falls (Kyle Weisser)	Photo Near 85th and Grange in Sioux Falls (Kyle Weisser)	Flooding in Sheldon, IA (Evan De Hoogh)	Flooding in Tea, SD (Adrian Hosli)

Rain Reports and Historical Records

Iowa rainfall reports
Minnesota rainfall reports
Nebraska rainfall reports
South Dakota rainfall reports

Location	Amount
Iowa
Buena Vista County
2 E Storm Lake	4.31 in
Alta	4.21 in
2 WSW Lakeside	3.72 in
4 E Sioux Rapids	3.12 in
Linn Grove	2.22 in
*Cherokee County*
Cherokee	1.72 in
2 NNE Cleghorn	1.48 in
4 N Cleghorn	1.45 in
Clay County
Everly	3.36 in
3 WSW Spencer	2.94 in
3 WNW Everly	2.84 in
Peterson	2.82 in
Spencer Municipal Airport	2.49 in
*Dickinson County*
Spirit Lake	3.64 in
Vicks Corner-spirit Lake Iow	2.85 in
3 SSE Lake Park	2.49 in
Spirit Lake	2.21 in
Spirit Lake	1.99 in
3 SSE Lake Park	1.83 in
Lake Park	0.86 in
*Ida County*
Holstein	1.49 in
*Lyon County*
Rock Rapids	3.73 in
Lester	3.31 in
*O`Brien County*
1 NW Hartley	5.53 in
Sheldon	4.52 in
Osceola County
Sibley	3.88 in
Plymouth County
Le Mars	0.96 in
Remsen No. 2	0.90 in
3 SSW Hinton	0.73 in
3 SSW Hinton	0.73 in
Millnerville	0.37 in
Sioux County
2 NNW Sioux Center	2.27 in
Orange City	1.59 in
Orange City Airport	1.26 in
Alton	1.02 in
2 S Orange City	0.98 in
Sioux Center	0.88 in
Woodbury County
Sioux City Ang	0.62 in
Sioux Gateway Airport	0.62 in
3 N Sioux City	0.60 in
Hornick	0.50 in
Holly Springs 1nw	0.49 in
Hiway 77 Bridge	0.45 in
Minnesota
*Cottonwood County*
2 WNW Windom	0.93 in
Windom Muni Airport	0.81 in
Jackson County
7 E Heron Lake	1.43 in
Lakefield	1.40 in
Jackson Airport	1.03 in
*Lincoln County*
5 E Ivanhoe	0.95 in
2 W Arco	0.37 in
Tyler	0.15 in
*Lyon County*
Redwood Rvr	0.84 in
Marshall	0.63 in
Marshall 0.6 S	0.59 in
Minneota	0.57 in
Marshall Municipal Airport	0.56 in
Marshall	0.54 in
Marshall	0.49 in
Tracy Airport	0.39 in
Nobles County
4 ESE Worthington	2.34 in
Worthington	1.87 in
Worthington Airport	1.83 in
Pipestone County
Edgerton	1.45 in
Pipestone Airport	0.61 in
Pipestone	0.45 in
Pipestone	0.35 in
Rock County
Luverne	3.67 in
Rock Rvr	3.11 in
Luverne Airport	2.32 in
Jasper	1.09 in
Nebraska
Dakota County
2 SW Hubbard	0.41 in
Hubbard 0.1 NW	0.38 in
South Dakota
Aurora County
White Lake	0.65 in
Beadle County
Hitchcock 7.5 WSW	0.24 in
Huron Regional Airport	0.19 in
Bon Homme County
Tyndall	4.84 in
3 SSE Tabor	3.60 in
3 S Tabor	1.72 in
*...Brookings County...*
Aurora 7.5 N	0.87 in
Brookings 0.8 ESE	0.86 in
1 ESE White	0.82 in
2 SE Astoria	0.77 in
Brookings	0.75 in
1 S Brookings	0.72 in
2 NE Brookings	0.72 in
5 N Brookings	0.68 in
Volga	0.61 in
4 ESE Bruce	0.61 in
3 SW Toronto	0.55 in
Aurora	0.46 in
Bruce	0.44 in
*...Brule County...*
1 S Pukwana	0.11 in
Chamberlain	0.04 in
Chamberlain Municipal Airport	0.01 in
*Charles Mix County*
Platte	0.05 in
1 E Platte	0.04 in
Lake Andes Raws	0.01 in
Clay County
1 ESE Vermillion	0.14 in
Vermillion	0.14 in
2 N Vermillion	0.13 in
Davison County
Mitchell 1 SE	0.42 in
Mitchell	0.36 in
Mitchell Municipal Airport	0.35 in
6 SSE Mitchell	0.21 in
2 W Ethan	0.12 in
Mitchell 1.1 N	0.10 in
*Douglas County*
7 WSW Dimock	0.33 in
10 W Dimock	0.04 in
*Gregory County*
Burke 10.5 SSE	0.37 in
7 WNW Naper	0.18 in
Bonesteel	0.18 in
4 E Gregory	0.18 in
Butte	0.12 in
8 S Dallas	0.06 in
Hutchinson County
4 SE Olivet	2.48 in
5 NNW Tripp	0.35 in
Kingsbury County
Oldham 0.9 E	0.88 in
De Smet	0.70 in
Lake Preston 10.5 NNE	0.34 in
Arlington 9.0 SSW	0.04 in
Lake County
3 SSW Nunda	1.04 in
Chester 2n	0.53 in
Madison Airport	0.30 in
2 E Madison	0.25 in
Lincoln County
4 SSE Sioux Falls	4.98 in
Harrisburg 2.5 NW	4.65 in
Sioux Falls 4.5 SSW	4.25 in
Sioux Falls 4.1 SSE	4.25 in
Canton	4.10 in
3 ENE Lennox	4.04 in
1 NNW Tea	3.96 in
3 SSW Sioux Falls	2.20 in
McCook County
5 NW Montrose	0.92 in
Bridgewater	0.27 in
Miner County
Howard	0.74 in
Howard 10.3 NNE	0.68 in
Howard 5.3 W	0.55 in
Fedora 10s	0.10 in
9 NNE Fulton	0.10 in
Minnehaha County
1 NE Rowena	4.40 in
Sioux Falls	4.16 in
3 ESE Sioux Falls	4.15 in
4 ESE Sioux Falls	4.15 in
3 ESE Sioux Falls	4.11 in
Sioux Falls 3ese	4.11 in
3 W Sioux Falls	4.09 in
5 SW Sioux Falls	4.09 in
1 SW Sioux Falls	4.06 in
Sioux Falls 3.4 WSW	3.91 in
4 SE Sioux Falls	3.90 in
3 WNW Rowena	3.73 in
Sioux Falls Airport	3.59 in
Sioux Falls Nws	3.55 in
Garretson 4.2 SSE	3.26 in
3 SW Sioux Falls	3.26 in
4 NNE Tea	3.07 in
Wall Lake	2.95 in
1 NE Sioux Falls	2.70 in
Sioux Falls Oak View Library	2.57 in
4 W Sioux Falls	2.46 in
3 SSW Sioux Falls	2.02 in
5 ESE Baltic	1.84 in
2 NE Crooks	1.73 in
Wall Lake	1.68 in
2 NNE Hartford	1.68 in
6 ESE Baltic	1.25 in
2 SSW Crooks	1.17 in
2 ENE Hartford	0.60 in
Moody County
5 E Chester	0.82 in
8 S Brookings	0.74 in
5 ESE Flandreau	0.63 in
Flandreau	0.33 in
*Turner County*
Hurley	5.35 in
Marion	2.81 in
Marion	2.75 in
3 NNE Parker	1.34 in
Union County
Beresford	2.15 in
2 W Westfield	0.17 in
Yankton County
2 SE Yankton	3.23 in
1 W Gayville	2.92 in
Yankton Airport	2.33 in